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Winchester '73 1950
While the results can vary, Mann regularly succeeds in finding an interesting angle for his re-examinations of the West. Here, as in other films of his, one such aspect subject to deconstruction is the foundational importance of violence as atomic constituent of a society confronted with the constant need to contain it but having no means to do so other than pulling out the very tool responsible for escalation and, ideally, a second quicker. One such exemplar serves as the…
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Anatomy of a Murder 1959
A positively acidic meditation on the nature of filmmaking transposed into and projected onto the material space of a court room. Anatomy of a Murder slyly emulates the structural beats of the Hollywood playbook and finds a structural equivalent in the legal drama. The film employs a basic underdog structure – here, a self-identifying "country lawyer", allegedly content with the simple pleasures of fishing and piano-playing, is pitted against a powerful prosecutor from Lansing for what seems to be a…
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The Man Without a Map 1968
Textbook poststructuralism in the guise of a detective story – historically an ever-so-potent generic address for epistemological inquiries –, where ανάλυσις figurates as complication laid bare rather than an illumination of the obscure, a solving of the knot. A man disappears, drops off the map, whether by kidnapping or his own volition, as if to escape the biopolitical matrix of the dispositifs de sécurité. The detective hired to find him effectively re-enacts this process. He is joined by the viewer…
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Where Is the Friend's House? 1987
An almost Dickensian quest of a young boy for decency and moral integrity. Trying to return a notebook to a friend who is in danger of getting expelled, Ahmed not only embarks on a journey that feels intrinsically right and necessary, he escapes the misaligned communication with his mother and the chores distracting him from his own homework in the process. More importantly, through this investigation, he reclaims crucial shreds of agency otherwise not afforded to society's youngest, and despite…
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