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“I’ve already started underlining meaningful passages in her copy of Moby Dick, if you know what I mean.” —Heathers In The Whale, by director Darren Aronofsky and writer Samuel D. Hunter, Brendan Fraser stars as an English teacher, Charlie, trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter. The film takes
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Pay attention, class. What was the cause of the Second American Civil War? Subscribe now It’s clear that Alex Garland’s Civil War goes out of its way to avoid giving the audience details about what caused the eponymous conflict raging throughout the U.S. We’re given tantalizing
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I haven't seen The People's Joker, which recently showed at the Toronto International Film Festival, and for now, it might have to stay that way. The film has reportedly been pulled from TIFF following "rights issues", and as such, the future of The People&
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[Here's something I wrote in 2015; I've changed a lot as a writer and thinker, but I like this piece still. All images taken from the film in question.] Subscribe now There’s a trans character in the 1994 American comedy Naked Gun 33 1/3:
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Ongoing Reflections on Physical Media, Part 2.
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Ongoing Reflections on Physical Media, Part 1.
film noir
"Exterminate all rational thought." Bill Lee in Naked Lunch Subscribe "The stuff that dreams are made of." Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon We can't exactly pin down film noir. Or perhaps it's better to say it isn't desirable to
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The filmmaker Hollis Frampton, in his essay "For a Metahistory of Film", writes that "Cinema is the Last Machine", later suggesting that "the sum of all film, all projectors and all cameras in the world constitutes one machine, which is by far the largest and
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Pasolini's Salò is a film about Fascism through sex; Bertolucci's Il Conformista (or The Conformist, in English) is a film about Fascism through architecture. All politics is distilled into the structures people live in, or more to the point the way we fit into those structures
horror
I think Marx put it best when he wrote that history repeats itself "the first time as tragedy, the second as a psychotic woman." I might be misremembering that, but I'm going to run with it. At the beginning of this month [note: this piece was
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Partway through Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves (2023), the two protagonists visit a cinema to see Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die (2019). The comparison between Kaurismäki and Jarmusch is an easy one but nonetheless bolstered by this offbeat citation: two lovers, bound yet adrift like fallen leaves,
personal essay
Today is February 2nd, Groundhog Day, namesake holiday of the classic film in which Bill Murray relives a single day repeatedly until he learns to be a halfway decent person. 2016 through 2020 felt a bit like Groundhog Day for myself, and I imagine many others, as days of batshit