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Box 1982
Insofar as the lens produces a two-dimensional projection of three-dimensional space as its image, and rectangles are just squares that want to be quirky: the cube contains the information lost along with a dimension. Or: it conveys the information added in the choice of projection. Or both!
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Swing Girls 2004
Sweet and funny, well-shot, acted and edited in a way that just barely eludes realism—if a little meanspirited about gyarus.
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The Cow 1969
the frame of gharbzadegi imposes itself on this movie to me, no less because it was released the same year jalal al-e-ahmad died. the bolouris, mythological and parasitical other, encroach on the village's "peace"—but this peace is, for its part, conditional and contingent on hierarchical violence within. the villagers would bury their heads in the sand (near-literally sometimes!) about the cow's fate; their dishonesty and telegraphic ritual is not ameliorative as intended but exacerbating for hassan's abjection, and their own…
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What's Up, Doc? 1972
Aptly named; so many sequences run like Looney Tunes come to life, characters chasing each other down and across hallways and streets, popping in and out of frame almost non-sequitur. Snappy, sharp dialogue and relentless clever gags, couldn't stop laughing. There's something deliberate going on, too, with how the working class side characters (doorman, hotel room service) operate at such an affective remove from the panic and chaos that afflicts our main cast in the high stakes they experience.
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