It’s really interesting that this short (more than any other UPA short imo) functions as a metacommentary on UPA’s economic, DIY approach (and ultimately ethos) to animation as well as their “brand” - which was in rejection to Disney’s detailed, textured and luscious style which relied on a very large taskforce of artists who were assigned to certain departments and delegated extremely specific tasks, tasks that would in themselves have very little effect on the final product. Fantasia, for example,…
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Asteroid City 2023
Bob Balaban’s character in Moonrise Kingdom is very interesting to me because although he seemingly appears to be and act as Wes Anderson-y as the rest of the inhabitants of the New England island of New Penzance, he does not in fact have any meaningful physical interaction with them or have any “real” effect on the events or environments that are presented to us within the film. We know barely anything about him, where he has come from or what…
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Upfield 2025
Before I watched this at ACMI, Paddy projected his print of this after the last AFW screening at Brunswick Green. What was different about these two times I saw this, is at the Brunswick Green, Paddy projected the film upside-down and back-to-front, and it was also played silently without the soundtrack. Besides knowing what it would properly look like the right way around and how this soundtrack might change my view of the film, I could still sense this unrelenting…
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A Couch in New York 1996
really really lovely…. shows Akermans flexible dynamic range as a filmmaker comparing this work to Jeanne Dielman – a film i more just appreciate than like or am attached to in some profound way. this reminds me of bits of Hal Hartley and those other mid budget projects coming out of the states in the 90s - I can even see bits of Stillman in this as well. i appreciate this kind of light touch of sorts-never overly dramatising certain…
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Don't Look Up 2021
In this latest episode of who wants to be a post-modernist, Hollywood Hustler and former funnyman, Adam McKay, presents to us the most brazenly obnoxious and predictable attempt at political satire since his own witless "comedy", Vice, in 2018.
Don’t Look Up is so poorly constructed from almost every conceivable angle, that it almost starts to function incidentally as some form of auto-critique – like a parasite on a mission to burrow through someone’s guts, getting confused, and starting to…
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Elvis 2022
Elvis manages to reach this certain poetic beauty not necessarily through a singular brilliance in its wild use of montage, compositions and overlays, but rather in the continuous barrage of visual and sonic ecstasy which result in a kind of perpetual daze, where one’s comprehension of certain historical details or even just specific narrative progression turn completely into an amorphous gelatinous goo. This aspect of the film IMO is its greatest strength because unlike other recent grand attempts at myth-making…
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