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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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October 26, 2021

The Thorny Matter of Coonskin

Ralph Bakshi’s 1975 film Coonskin presents its audience with so much racially charged, controversial and deliberately offensive material its impossible to formulate a response as […]
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October 26, 2021

The Bothersome Man: Bloody Hilarious

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” (Friedrich Nietzsche) Jens Lien’s 2006 film The […]
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October 26, 2021

Who Killed Captain Alex: Post-Modern, Post Colonial, Hip Hop, Cinema?

Who Killed Captain Alex? was made by the ebullient Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana in 2010. It was filmed in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The […]
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October 26, 2021

Cafe Flesh: A Darkly Clairvoyant Trilogy

Stephen Sayadian and Mark S. Esposito chose not to have their names appear on screen as the directors of this nightmare. Cafe Flesh takes place […]
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October 25, 2021

Favorite Scenes №11: Moonlight

​Barry Jenkins made Moonlight In 2016. In it, we witness a young man’s struggle to construct a male identity. In the first third of the film, we […]
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October 25, 2021

Revenge of Mechagodzilla: Thoughts on Kaiju Symbolism

The legacy of Godzilla began in 1954. The history of this still ongoing franchise has been divided into a variety of eras the first of which is […]
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October 25, 2021

Do You See What I See: Interpreting 8 ½

In reading about Fellini’s 8 ½ I was surprised by the number of critics and reviewers who focused on the film as a depiction of what it is […]
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October 25, 2021

Kung Fu Cock Fighter, NSFW or Anywhere

What might a movie called Kung Fu Cock Fighter be about? Let’s review the possibilities. It could be about some kung fu master who uses […]
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October 25, 2021

Social Psychology In Mehrjui’s Gaav (The Cow)

The first two-thirds of Dariush Mehrjui’s film Gaav (The Cow) feel’s like a biblical parable. It is not predictable, but it feels like it’s going to be. […]
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October 25, 2021

The Lives of Others

The first hour of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ’s 2006 film The Lives of Others is masterful. The atmosphere is taut and cold. There is […]
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October 25, 2021

Omo Child: A Challenge for Multiculturalism

Currently, western culture embraces the tenets of multiculturalism. There is a desire to recognize all cultures and ideologies as worthy of respect and to see […]
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October 24, 2021

Kiarostami’s Where Is The Friend’s House?

​Jean-Luc Godard famously bragged “All I need to make a movie is a girl and a gun” but he was a pretentious asshole. All Abbas […]
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October 24, 2021

Favorite Scenes №10: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Nathan Juran released his fantasy adventure extravaganza, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, in 1958. The movie provided Ray Harryhausen an opportunity to showcase the stop motion skills […]
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