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The Substance 2024
Should art be subtle?
It’s a less obvious question than it seems. Much is made of the Great Writers’ deft touch, layered metaphors, and dense subtext, but if the last fifty years have taught us anything, it’s that there is as much meaning in loudness as there is in silence. What a poem can’t communicate, a pipe bomb often can. Look outside - open your phone. Our culture has become an endless screech, a hurricane of color and sound and…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
Throughout my life, I’ve spent (wasted?) a lot of time chewing on an age-old question: what is the purpose of art?
I’m not about to resolve that mystery for you, sorry. If countless generations of philosophers can’t do it, I don’t stand much of a chance. Still, though, in the course of those late-night puzzlings, I’ve come upon an answer that works well enough for me: art is the only tool we have to help ourselves understand lives and experiences…
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September 5 2024
A thrilling, nuanced, and well-observed surprise standout from the Telluride Film Festival let down only slightly by its budget and script.
If you’re a student of history or even just a film fan, you know the Munich Massacre. It’s a dark, complex, and contentious moment in history, best known in the current day by the striking images that it produced - a masked assailant leaning out onto a balcony, a battered and terrified man being held out a window as…
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Conclave 2024
A page-turner and pot-boiler whose reach might exceed its grasp, particularly towards the end.
Director Edward Berger introduced his film at the Telluride Film Festival by saying that after dragging his crew through the freezing mud in his previous film, All Quiet on the Western Front, he was pleased to “give them a break” with a shoot in less oppressive environs. The experience of watching Conclave, however, lends some irony to those words - he has created another film that…
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