I would have been fourteen or fifteen when I posted yet another one of my cursory reviews in the Facebook group I was at the time an active member of, Movie Buffs – a diaspora of the then recently defunct Rotten Tomatoes community. This review was of one of the Greatest Films of All Time, Kubrick’s Spacious Odyssey, 2001. But why? Why was it one of the greatest and thus synonymous with my favorite? Now, I’d hazard to say it…
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The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
The giants of film canon can frequently be intimidating and boring. Many people move through them with a perfunctory motion. Yet more often than not, there’s a history informing and validating their inclusion. It’s common to conceptualize such canons as an extended conversation. A disjointed, time-crossed conversation connected through a mixture of scholarship and hindsight. Being privy to these contextual factors can really make these classics fresh again.
In Bresson’s published collection of self-penned aphorisms, one entry, seemingly disconnected to…
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Anomalisa 2015
I’m not sure that movies really change me. It’s probably more that certain movies just bode and resonate with my current state. When I saw Anomalisa at release, I was nineteen and feeling very lonely. I loved Charlie Kaufman’s stuff, and although Anomalisa felt comparatively on the nose to his prior stuff (as many other forum members felt), I still dug the movie’s vibes. I got Michael. He was alone, lost in this sordid maze of hopeless despair, like me.…
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At Berkeley 2013
Technological advances in the late 1950s made it possible to make a movie about any subject where there was enough light to shoot film. Therefore, every aspect of contemporary life could be explored on film. There is great drama, tragedy, comedy in ordinary experience, which if you happen to be lucky enough to be present when it occurs, you can use in film. My goal is to make films of as many different aspects of life as I can. 1…
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