A definition of modernity - the moment that utopia was transformed from an island, a no place that was only accessible in thought, to a city that could be built and realised in the world.
Goethe famously said that architecture was frozen music. The architect here says that architecture is a frozen waterfall.
Cinema was once praised for its ability to capture time and to give it back to us. It went beyond replaying the past but brought us into…
The film begins with two primal scenes.
The first is an Indian raid on a wagon train, shown only through a patch of smoke on the horizon and a brief shoot out, peripheral to the action in the distance. Wayne and his sidekick dispatch the braves only to learn that his girl’s been butchered.
The second, the claiming of land in another shoot out with the cronies of the landowner. A quick kill before Wayne reads the Bible over the…
Hey Claire if you see this comment below my phone ate itself and this is the only place I can make contact rn!!!
Music documenaries are so tedious. Extended hagiography, zero historicisation, mad genius complex. Random interviews with loser guys who make bedroom music. R Stevie’s gf he met on fb who’s basically his carer. Imagine meeting your hero and then cleaning his ass till the day he croaks!?! Would I do that for Stendhal?
