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  Anora 2024

  Rewatched 28 Feb 2025

  rip e street!

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  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024

  Watched 05 Feb 2025

  rot in hell eisenhower, death to amerikkka, the u.n., belgium, et al.

  great movie about the contingent relationship of aesthetics & politics

  the political unconscious cuts both ways; what made the jazz ambassador program work is that the music *did* effectively channel the revolutionary ferment of the time, but its very potency enabled it to be instrumentalized and weaponized by hegemonic state powers. this problem of critique and complicity as a janus face is the same problem faced by this documentary,…

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  The Room Next Door 2024

  Watched 21 Jan 2025

  i would also do this for sontag

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  The Lake House 2006

  Watched 13 Feb 2023

  after last year at marienbad, this is easily the best adaptation of the invention of morel

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