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IT ENDS Review
You have to keep driving, James, it’s the only way, James, you don’t know if you’ve been going forward or backward anymore, James, if you started going one direction, but turned around and found the way you came in now gone, but then the car is turned around again, are you now driving forward or…
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Hundreds of Millions in the Hole
Alejandro Iñárritu’s Digger is a $180 million joke, made all the more funny by holding the honor of having one of the worst opening weekends for a major, wide-release, A-list led film. And since the film reveals itself to be essentially a two-hour-long gag, it could really only lead to its status as an unprecedented,…
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Greyhound Thesis (3371433626)
7/10/26 I feel like an Edward Hopper painting, which is to say, it is nighttime, I am alone, and I am eating at a diner in a distinctly American city. I have a bum leg going on four-and-a-half weeks, which has kept me home, ruining my plans for some grand unemployed summer, my neck hurts…
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Desensitized Young Man
As far as I know, 9/11 may very well be the first thing I ever saw on television. My father has told me on an occasion or two that I was sitting on his knee, an infant having only known consciousness for mere months, in front of the screen as the World Trade Center crashed…
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Goldfish Bowl
It has taken me so long—writing and rewriting, revising and rearranging, rereading and rereading and rereading: incessantly so—because, I think, I have things I want to say, but they cannot be said honestly. What needs to be said are not noble words, but I try to wriggle out of my obligation, trying to twist them…
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The Digital as Cultural Lifeblood; or, Why Was THE SECRET AGENT Not Shot on Film?
After all, it is a worthwhile question. The movie otherwise faithfully and palpably recreates the Brazil of the late ‘70s through its locations-based production, set design, music selection, color palette, and so on. The filmmaking on display here is also clearly indebted to those who were working contemporaneously to the events depicted onscreen. The audience…
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Three Years at Sea: A Short Story
He hates her when he reads her words. He does not think of her anymore as emphatically and obsessively as he once did those three years ago. However, she still comes and goes, passing through the walls of his brain like a ghost; sometimes he even conjures her up himself, he can’t help it. He…
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A ROMANCE for the Ages
She looks older than she really is; the thumbnail for Catherine Breillat’s Romance belies the age of its actress. One expects a more mature woman upon starting the film, only to be met with the glaringly naturalistic youth of its star, Caroline Ducey as Marie. At a distance and on first glance, one would not…
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Destroy the Family, Destroy the World: GREENLAND 2 Review
In the apocalyptic world of Greenland: Migration, family is all about sacrifice. Family is everything and everything must be sacrificed to ensure its continuation. In Ric Roman Waugh’s sequel to 2020’s Greenland, family man John Garrity leads a band of survivors after the destruction of Greenland Station on an expedition to a scientifically anomalous paradise…
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Living with Yourself after Death; or, Why WE BURY THE DEAD
We Bury the Dead (dir. Zak Hilditch) happened to be the first in a long list of January genre releases (Mercy, Primate, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Send Help, Shelter, Greenland 2: Migration) that I was looking forward to this new year. Easily the most memorable, touching scene of this unexpectedly quiet, tender zombie…
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A Steam Room of Troubles
There is no escape, there is simply the given, and there is nothing that we can do.—Harold Bloom, “Interview,” Diacritics Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.—Sun Tzu, The Art of War I…
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Drowning? Enter the Net
I’m already drowning again. I still have no clue what to do about it. It’s such a beyond trite observation at this point, but it is too much for any one person to have access to the entire wealth of the world’s knowledge without so much as a second thought toward the matter. The Library…
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Arctation’s Anxiety: A Short Story
Maybe psychoanalysis is what I need. I have horrible dreams, dreams that don’t feel like dreams. Not all that long ago I woke up from a particularly alarming one, one that seemed as if it’d never end. In my dream, I was no longer a man, or so I really believed. I decided I had…
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Is There No End for a DREAMER?
In the closing minutes of Bresson’s second color film and third Dostoyevsky “adaptation,” the usually perambulatory Jacques silently hunches over two partially painted canvases laid across the floor. Earlier in Four Nights of a Dreamer, the viewer catches a glimpse at a couple such paintings that have been more or less finished: large faceless portraits…
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“Hello, YOU”
I’ve found I quite enjoy a thing after everyone already else has. There’s no pressure to like or dislike it; I can take it as it is more or less. I’ve also found that my more snob-like tendencies are becoming a bit too pronounced for my taste, so it seemed about time to bring myself…
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In the DREAMLAND COURT of the Recidivist King
It struck me toward the end of Dale Herd and Barry Hall’s Dreamland Court that this experimental narrative videotape acts as a reversal of Michael Snow’s structuralist masterpiece. In Snow’s Wavelength (1967), an extended snail’s-pace zoom occurs for the entire duration of the film with characters passing through the space, the camera independent and indifferent…
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The Dissolve between Auteur and Actor: The Mimetic Interrogation of Antoine as Truffaut [Revise-it #3]
Am I…washed up? These days, it is so hard for me to imagine myself writing something as focused as this piece. Maybe that’s just what happens when writing becomes a hobby you sometimes do in between working and hanging out rather than a full-time field of a study. I barely changed a thing about this…
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The End of the World | Now Streaming
“The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.”—Maurice Blanchot To have this movie be an adaptation of The War of the Worlds—a respected science fiction property that has been remixed by the likes of Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, and Classical Hollywood—is hysterical and is so bold in its ridiculousness that it horseshoes itself…
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Epiphany
Love & Pop and Crank are The 400 Blows and Breathless of digital video.
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LOVE, and What Stays between Us
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The Weave
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