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No Other Land 2024
Basel is inspiring, the way he stands up to Israeli soldiers demolishing his home in the West Bank. He doesn’t hate them. He’s trying to wake them up to the crimes they are committing, which they don’t want to hear. His camera is his only defense.
It’s a shame no distributor will show this movie. Basel and Yuval tried to bring this demolition of Masafer Yatta to the world through social media and articles. But they’ve yet to really break through the mainstream. This Oscar may help with that.
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The Brutalist 2024
It’s a long, winding movie with themes about the immigrant experience of never being accepted, an artist’s selfish ambition to be remembered, the ruthlessness of the capitalist. There are so many threads it risks being about none in particular. But a 3.5 hour film may be better thought of as chapters, or even vignettes, rather than a compact unit of meaning.
I remember the sounds and sights of building, driving (practically flying) on the scenic Pennsylvania roads. If long, the film inspires.
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
Like many of Miyazaki’s films, The Boy and the Heron isn’t hugely plot-driven. It’s a story about the many possible worlds open to us.
in particular nostalgia for a mystical Japan not plagued by the jingoist military industrial complex that killed Mahito’s mother in a hospital fire during WWII.
Distant from his father who owns an air munitions factory and married his late wife’s sister, Natsuko, Mahito follows the grey heron to find his mother. He enters the decaying tower…
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