I think the overwhelming sensation I get from this is that Anger sells how sort of uncanny the image of Mickey Mouse is despite being the most popular and successful trademark on the planet.
Elsewhere Anger has expressed a frustration at the immediate commodification and softening of the character of Mickey -- Mickey used to be sort of a wood sprite or evil imp, like Geo. Herriman's Krazy Kat, in the films with Ub Iwerks in the 1920s. But by…
The modes of critical thought that Freud and Sontag propagated seem incompatible. Susan Sontag very clearly states that the act of analysis or interpretation is a remnant of medieval scholasticism or kabbalism, esoteric methods of extracting meaning from religious texts, and that art should be judged by its erotic aspects, erotic meaning 'eros', or the subjective and sensory impression left upon the viewer of the art. But Sontag, whose "Against Interpretation" essay was written contemporaneously to Brakhage's film, was married…
I find it pretty disgusting that all the major reviews are talking about how "emotionally exposed" and "powerful" Hugh Jackman is by hunting down and torturing an intellectually disabled person. This movie is not American but I find it very American how it fetishizes Christian White Dad Rage, the all powerful police state (in which a detective is allowed to chase down a guy at a public gathering because he looks weird, and then make him a major suspect based…
-Stray dust and hairs on blank frames of film. The arrangement of the dust on one frame has no relation to the ones before and after it, but you can't help but feel like the result is what it would look like to look out the cockpit of a spaceship.
-The sounds of "empty" film tracks, generations old and dubbed to a VHS, gives The Caretaker a run for his money.
-Linklater may have seen the writing on the wall.…
