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My four favorites are ranked by the most recent 5-star film I watched.
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Aim High In Creation! 2013
It is a wildly ambitious premise: if North Korea makes the most effective propaganda films, why not learn from them to make my own?
The film is fascinating in its meta-commentary, both in what it explicitly says and what it leaves unspoken. Broinowski arrives with a clear agenda, openly embracing one-sided advocacy, but the documentary still ends up revealing more about its own ideological tensions than perhaps intended. The attempt to bridge vastly different cinematic traditions leads to moments of…
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The Selling of the Pentagon 1971
Pretty essential to watch things like this to understand mass persuasive communication and the importance of critical scepticism. Many moments which can be seen as dramatically ironic / foreshadowing for later American propaganda.
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I'm Not Everything I Want to Be 2024
Brilliant photographer and brilliant film. Emotive and Rhythmic, Libuše Jarcovjákova's world of infinite film rolls is shown on the big screen and it puts forth distinct messages:
Go out. Document your life. No one else will do it for you. (and, directly to me) stop with your obsession with perfect photos. Enjoy your craft.
"Don't look for the extraordinary otherwise you will jump over your shadow."
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The Brutalist 2024
Having gone out of our way to watch this movie in 70mm in the only cinema in the country that offered it, I ended up not entirely sure whether we had just watched a monumental piece of art or something simply too pretentious. After thinking about it way too much (as I tend to do), I realized that’s exactly why I couldn’t help but admire it. It was tough to digest—partially because I came in with too many expectations, and…
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