It’s not the character that’s dreaming. It’s the film that’s dreaming. This is what they talk about when they talk about “pure cinema.” Movies that have a consciousness. And in this…
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The Bad Sleep Well 1960
Me for the last several years: Kurosawa’s cool and foundational but should I still bother? Seems mostly like a gateway figure and I’ve seen the big ones.
Me watching this:…
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Wonder Woman 1984 2020
when they said wonder woman 1984 i thought they meant like neon colors and synths but they meant all the horrifying, reagan era geopolitics and middle eastern stereotypes. doesn't help…
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War of the Worlds 2005
one of the medium's foremost masters of screen space has a panic attack, a full-blown psychotic breakdown when confronted with the post-9/11 horror and confusion and paranoia that comes with…
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The Irishman 2019
Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese’s long-time editor, recently gave an interview with Cinemontage and she discussed how she and Scorsese approached The Irishman (2019) differently from their other mafia pictures. She…
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Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind 2007
“To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.”
- Gilles Deleuze
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Velvet Goldmine 1998
Everyone knows Ewan McGregor waves his dick around on-stage as Curt Wild, but nobody talks about what comes next, a cut to the nurse smiling into the camera as she…
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