A CNN propaganda film, not only in how it justifies the means and decisions based on the motivation of the “24 hour story,” or even how it attempts to vindicate the network in its errors (consider how the intertextuality of the Nariyah testimony is employed), or in the stock orientalism (broadly, in the scenes “straight out of Ali Baba,” as one character— the one who operates the camera throughout the coverage, in a moment of unintentional, but delicious, irony— exclaims,…
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Nosferatu 2024
Obviously I liked this, but that one scene where Anna walks through her oppressively dark bedroom hallway in nothing but swaying lanternlight, or that one shot of the wet tomb crate in the hull of the plague ship…woof, if only the film were made entirely out of those elements
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Perfect Blue 1997
There simply isn’t any animation that feels quite like Satoshi Kon’s, with its elaborate editing schemes that posit multiple realities as coexistent, all simultaneously true and un-true, as patches of uncanny memories floated onto frames, each rendered with varying degrees of detail resolution and strange character-background interfaces.
This is where it all started, and thus a revolutionary moment in the history of animation: a bewildering exploration of time-feel in the information age, the experience of an ever-more-mediated existence as a recursive nightmare.
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The Red Shoes 1948
Absolutely perfect, until that one scene where it’s better than perfect.
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