I want to see a moist meter for this film with special guest Ludwig where they have a seemingly rare moment of genuine emotion explaining how this movie surprised them - how it spoke to them as content creators.
The story structure and De Niro’s character got under my skin, but I found this largely unpleasant. It deals with very profound and real phenomena in an uneven, ill-considered, and mostly shallow manner. The third act redeems and completes the film,…
A sprawling American epic. A country of motion pictures and the “moron millions.” Of course a blind man was the only one who could immediately sense our hero’s innocence.
Apologies to your eyeballs old friends- last I’ll say is that this cured my saturday headache.
Till next time
Struggled to find anything about this, so for those who want it:
grasshopperfilm.com/transmissions-straub-war/
Goethe-Institut London:
"In the short film The Algerian War!, intended as a prologue to Communists, Straub reflects upon his own refusal to fight in the Algerian war in the 1950s, via a story written by psychoanalyst Jean Sandretto about a man, who, having fought in a war, is confronted by a ghost of his past. ‘I have come to kill you.’ Straub said, ‘I left because I…
I really have no idea what to say. I want to say something like: "this makes me want to make movies, show the world what my eyes see." And that is true, but I just don't know what that is. I feel a little lost. I find sometimes that I am best at being an observer, a sort of apathetic wanderer, looking at everything and trying to interpret it, often failing. I feel especially so after movies like these. It's…
