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October 31, 2021

The Balance of Form and Content in Victoria

When Sebastian Schipper chose to make the film Victoria in 2015 it was either going to be a recipe for a brilliant triumph or complete disaster. The […]
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October 31, 2021

Some Snippets From My Film Student’s Papers

I love and respect my students. I present to you some of their missteps with the greatest affection.​“Apocalypse Now film was released in 1979 by Ford […]
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October 31, 2021

Bollywood’s Naag Panchami is a Dazzling Explosion of Color

​What is it about women and snakes? Always lots a trouble with those women and their snakes. In this case it is the story of […]
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October 30, 2021

Favorite Scenes №16: Poltergeist

Tobe Hooper made Poltergeist in 1982. It’s an uneven film that is more entertaining than it is artful, but the choice to cast Zelda Rubinstein as the […]
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October 30, 2021

La Cienaga is Masterful

La Cienaga is a beautifully, and meticulously constructed film. Each facet and each scene reflects the entirety of the film. It begins as the sounds […]
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October 30, 2021

Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet

Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet was originally made in The Soviet Union by Pavel Klushantsev. Somehow B-movie Icon, Roger Coreman, got a hold of it and […]
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October 30, 2021

Stray Dogs: A Different Way of Watching Film.

Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang wrote and directed Stray Dogs in 2017. Seeing it is not like seeing other films. There are two meanings to the word see. […]
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October 30, 2021

Subject Position in Bone

The movie, Bone was released in 1972 and everything about it reflects that time frame. In 1972 Richard Nixon was president, Gloria Steinem’s published the first issue […]
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October 30, 2021

The Role of Conflict in Tomcat

This article contains spoilers. Tomcat centers around one sharp moment of horror. A single lightning bolt out of nowhere that leaves you breathless. Tomcat is […]
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October 30, 2021

Historical Philosophy en Coitus, or How I Got My Yeast Infection.

Let me begin by offering my kudos to Pornhub for providing a reliquary of obscure pornographic films from all through the ages. Beyond the landing […]
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October 30, 2021

Let The Corpses Tan

I’ve never seen a film as jam packed with cinematic acrobatics as Let The Corpses Tan. Its a hyper-stylized, over the top, morass of filmmaking. Its […]
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October 29, 2021

Favorite Scenes №15 To Catch A Thief

Hitchcock often made realism and plausibility a priority in his films. Movies like Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho were meant to be seen as events that could […]
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October 29, 2021

The Headless Woman

The most salient feature of Lucrecia Martel’s 2004 film, The Headless Woman, is the insightful and meticulous observations she finds in mundane moments. The way droplets of […]
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October 29, 2021

A Far Too Brief Essay About Sátántangó

Béla Tarr’s film Sátántangó is formidable. Not simply because it is 7.5 hours long, but because any exposure to Bela Tarr’s world view is a rough ride. […]
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October 29, 2021

Neil Breen’s Fateful Findings

“I can’t believe you committed suicide, I can not believe you committed suicide. How could you have done this? How could you have committed suicide?” […]
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October 28, 2021

Favorite Scenes №14: The Breakfast Club

John Hughes may have his limitations as a filmmaker but in his 1985 comedy The Breakfast Club, he finds an ingenious expositional device that he uses […]
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October 28, 2021

Joe Massot's Wonderwall

What an odd movie Wonderwall is. It was made in 1968 by Joe Massot, who would later co-direct The Song Remains The Same. Wonderwall could have been a […]
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October 28, 2021

Reconciling The Wayward Cloud

​A young man climbs on to the roof of a high-rise and carefully sneaks into a water tower. He soaps up and lazily floats in the […]
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October 28, 2021

You Should See Yedu Chepala Katha, But Wear a Helmet.

​It could not have been easy to make a two hour, narrative film that is completely unintelligible. You’d think they might stumble across some continuity […]
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October 27, 2021

Favorite Scenes №13: Nostalgia

Andre Tarkovsky made his film Nostalgia in 1983. It is a breathtaking two hours and ten minutes of heart-aching humanism. Nestled in the middle of the movie […]
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October 27, 2021

There Has Never Been A Film Like The Act of Killing

When I first heard the premise for The Act of Killing it sounded like a terrible idea and after seeing it I remain undecided. I am astonished […]
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October 27, 2021

Documenter And Documented: Whose Side Of The Camera Are You On? 

Nazi officers wore hats emblazoned with a big skull right in the center, and yet it never occurred to them It’s hard to believe that […]
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October 26, 2021

Favorite Scenes №12: Modern Times

In 1936 Charlie Chaplin released his silent film Modern Times, a treatise on humanity’s uneasy relationship to the industrial revolution and the ascendency of capitalism. Early […]
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October 26, 2021

The Frog by Segundo de Chomón

The surrealists recognized that not all surrealist art needed to be made by a surrealist. As a group, they laid claim to many artworks and […]
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