"The moving eye in the moving body must work to pick out and interpret a variety of changing, juxtaposed orders, like the shifting configurations of a Victor Vasarely painting."
--Learning From Las Vegas (1972)

Last July, Scott and I were wandering through the Loop in Chicago, seeing the sights and waiting for Tim and his wife to arrive. We stumbled upon a film set--it wasn't the first time I had done so downtown, but it was the first time I immediately recognized the film being shot--The Dark Knight (2008).

It appears to have been the set-up for the scene where Joker (Heath Ledger) is sprung from a prison truck by his henchman (look closely and you'll see the bullet holes and cracked windshields).


There is something appropriately symbolic about just wandering the city, as a cinephile, with a fellow cinephile, and stumbling upon a set--a practice intensified by an overt cinematic presence, leaving its trace in photos and now blog posts. As it had been to stumble upon the old Punch Drunk Love location about a week later in Hawaii.

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