Time Out of Joint:
Time out of Joint has been a running blog, in some form or another, since 2004. It's a notebook dedicated to extending a conversation about cinema and the soul's longing to be recognized in a world awash in technology, materiality, and hyperreality.
"Let us go in together, And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite, That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, come, let's go together." --Hamlet Act 1, scene 5,
Reno Lauro:
Reno's first cinematic memories are the lights coming up in the theater and walking up to the movie screen and wondering how the Millenium Falcon fit back there and being scared to death when Richard Dryfuss' character finds the dead boater at the bottom of the harbor in Jaws (the 1979 re-release no doubt). He's was the kind of kid who looked forward to Siskel & Ebert as much as Mr. Rogers and was as overcome by commercials for the CBS or ABC Special Movie Presentation as he was for Christmas morning.
Reno is now an Orthodox Christian who holds a PhD from the University of St. Andrews where he wrote on ". . . that place where J. R. R. Tolkien, Martin Heidegger, Hyperreality, and Terrence Malick meet and make . . ." at the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts. He currently splits his professional time being a creative director and a professor of film studies. He lives, loves, and creates with his wife and best friend, Melissa, and their son John Cassian in Scottsdale, AZ.