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The Hidden Reference to Scientology in Air Force One
Before I show you what I’m about to show you, I want you to understand that this is something I saw nearly 15 years ago. When I saw it, I tried to convince my friends sitting next to me in the theater that I saw it, and they didn’t believe me.
And for the next decade or so, I couldn’t… Read the rest
So-Called Feminism in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Is Lisbeth Salander a feminist heroine? According to the Internet, the answer depends on the medium in which her story plays out.
In her original form, as a character in the novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, the answer readers gave is unequivocally yes. Lisbeth finds herself in a world where every man is an abuser… Read the rest
The Strange Ascendance of The Descendants
You’ll like the Descendants if you are 50 years old and think that by virtue of achieving such a high score in orbiting the sun, you’re entitled to burden the rest of society with the cliched wisdom you’ve accumulated from decades of daytime TV and self help books. For the rest of us, it’s the two hour version of those… Read the rest
Drive is the best David Lynch film not actually made by David Lynch
This film has absolutely no business being this good.
The marketing campaign makes Drive look like a Fast and Furious knockoff. Cars? Check. Heists? Check. Gangsters? Check.
Forget all that. Drive is an LA fever dream, a collision of the present with 1987′s collective unconscious. What is the film about? This picture tells you exactly what it’s about: looking behind… Read the rest
September 29, 2011
Tagged action, cars, cinema, film, heist, hollywood, Los Angeles, lynch, movies, refn
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Netflix becomes Postmodern, splits into two, and races for the bottom
Netflix is spinning off is DVD-by-mail business to focus on streaming. If there was ever an example of how postmodern business has become, this is it.
It is often said that in postmodernism, the curator was as important than the works he curated. That certainly seems to be the guiding principle behind this decision. Effectively, Netflix is throwing out… Read the rest
September 19, 2011
Tagged cinema, digital, film, marketing, movies, streaming, technology, video
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Blind – a cautionary tale
Blind is a very short film about man living in a radioactive Tokyo, haunted by a little girl.
The film compactly delivers its warning about ignoring the dangers of radiation like a well landed punch. And in Japan, the film is part of a growing popular backlash against corporate cover-up and government dissembling over the extent and ongoing dangers of… Read the rest
Walt Disney CTO: Movies are about “visual spectacle,” not story
Walt Disney Animation Studios chief technical officer Andy Hendrickson, describes thinking behind the studio’s film strategy:
“People say ‘It’s all about the story,’” Hendrickson said. “When you’re making tentpole films, bullshit.” Hendrickson showed a chart of the top 12 all-time domestic grossers, and noted every one is a spectacle film. Of his own studio’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which is on
Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life is one of the greatest films ever made.
And if you walked out, I hate to break it to you, but you’re closed-minded. And that’s what this post is about. It’s not a review of the film (that’s coming later). Rather, this is a review of the rather large class of people who walked out of it.*
First, an endorsement. Go see this. Now. In the theater. You… Read the rest
