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Illusions 1982
Realities plentifully redolent of both America's and Hollywood's cascading power dynamics; the class and racial segregation of unionization vis-à-vis labor rights, representation as a commodity in relation to one's willingness to sacrifice identity for the hegemony. Illusions stalk the office conversations; what good do "executive decisions" make for a woman who obscures her identity, who finds herself nowhere (in actuality, supplanted) in "this magic carpet called film?" What is tangible for Julie Dash? Toppling the perception, identification of history as writ. Here to create, not merely correct.
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The Hole 1998
Isolation as an unfurled, torrential insecticide; our on-screen lonesomes endeavor their daily typicality as the world wedges their psyches to the foreground. Upstairs, he experiences the disruption of professional life as sales become stagnant, an empty shopping center fumigated to ring the death knell of both capital and social. Downstairs, loneliness besets; musical numbers perform diegetic psychoanalysis—phone sex strips the wallpaper, so someone might wrap the ill in soaked paper fortresses.
It is all unbearable: missed doorbells, missed glances, missed…
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Rehearsals for Retirement 2007
Encapsulates the liminality of 3D environs like none other, emptiness for a memory made digital.
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Taste of Cherry 1997
The reason is never sufficient; satisfaction in its totality is something reserved for the self. Mr. Badii stares at the reflections of his youth and moral puzzles in his first two recruitments; his ability to relate to or distance himself from them appears completely ambiguous. We do not know him. His passengers do not endeavor to know him. We know his pain and fear, but we cannot possibly feel them.
Intellectualizing Mr. Badii's apparent apprehension toward his project (he even…
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