Gorgeous. Waterfall is the cherry on top.
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The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” 1894
My biggest takeaway from the dozens of early pre-1900 shorts I've watched is how closely cinema is intertwined with the so-called white gaze, as a means of documenting and fetishizing whatever "other" was at hand. I thought the process began with Griffith, but it's much older than that, apparently.
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Oppenheimer 2023
The Boston Globe (my hometown paper) called it "visually stunning but emotionally empty," and while I mostly agree with that assessment, it doesn't quite do the film justice, especially since that's an evergreen critique that might be leveled at Nolan's work as a whole. Cillian Murphy delivers one of the director's more nuanced character studies in his efforts to contain Oppenheimer's self-destructive contradictions, I think, and film's handling of its own epic canvas inspired a sense of awe throughout, if…
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