If the movie theater bans me for hollering at the screen,
I will face God and walk backwards into Hell.
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The Last of the Mohicans 1992
My first archaeological excavation was at Fort William Henry under the late David Starbuck. I’ve been meaning to watch this movie for the longest time, and I was hoping to enjoy it more. Can’t even really say why, but it’s not, to use Cora’s words, “deeply stirring to my blood.”
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Witches 2024
The central thesis is fascinating—that certain historically documented confessions of witchcraft sound suspiciously similar to descriptions of postpartum psychosis, with women reporting to have seen the devil tempting them to kill their children. Unfortunately it takes the film nearly an hour to arrive here. Prior to that there are really heartbreaking personal testimonies that would make for an excellent piece of long-form journalism, but these testimonies are frustratingly set to clips of films with only a superficial relevance to the…
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Chime 2024
Contemporary American horror has been criticized for a perceived overreliance on allegory, for grief or other struggles considered to be internal to the self. What I love about Kurosawa is his sociological approach, paying attention to both society and the individual. Matsuoka is suffering internally and he is told to his face several times that he talks about himself too much. Yet the scope here goes beyond the main character—the horror is an epidemic. Others are suffering just as much in…
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