jack schaaf

jack schaaf

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  • La Strada
  • Deep End
  • Pather Panchali
  • Side/Walk/Shuttle

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  • Closely Watched Trains

  • Django

  • Dancer in the Dark

  • Brutal Season

    ★★★★

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  • Closely Watched Trains

    Closely Watched Trains

    "The two primary motions are rotation and sexual movement, whose combination is expressed by the locomotive's wheels and pistons. These two motions are reciprocally transformed the one into the other. Thus one notes that the earth, by turning, makes animals and men have coitus, and (because the result is as much the cause as that which provokes it) that animals and men make the earth turn by having coitus."
    -Georges Bataille

    If a train is a place of fantasy, a…

  • Django

    Django

    He drags his name around in a coffin. His name belongs to a machine gun. But when he buries it, it is another man's gold. His name lives on, but now it belongs to him.

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  • Barbie

    Barbie

    Barbieland is a real place that has a real influence on "the real world." When "the real world" has the opportunity, it influences Barbieland and things go awry. When things go awry in Barbieland, everything goes awry everywhere. Do not try to influence Barbieland. Just let it influence you.

  • Spider-Man 2

    Spider-Man 2

    ★★★★

    god how i wish people in real life gave accidental life-changing pep talks like aunt may gives peter in this film.

    the cinematography is fucking awesome. the shots of things approaching peter from behind are crazy.

    it’s been a while since i intentionally watched a superhero movie, so i never really realized that villains and heroes have actual motives other than fighting for the hell of it. doc ock’s motivating factor is greed and hunger for power. he will do…

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