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Dune: Part Two 2024
possibly the greatest visual spectacle film ever. better than avatar, better than interstellar, and probably only rivalled by the LOTR trilogy. I genuinely felt privileged to be able to watch this film.
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He Walked by Night 1948
Alfred Werker’s 1948 film noir police procedural ‘He Walked By Night’ is an excellent representation in miniature of the cultural, psychic, and political hang-ups that Western society experienced immediately following the end of World War II. Specifically, these hang-ups included an increasing crime rate, the resulting collective feeling of paranoia, and what Vivian Sobchack refers to in Post-War Crises and the Chronotope of Film Noir as a “lived sense of social incoherence”. While depicting in all their ugliness, it would…
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M 1931
It is an extremely rare occurrence when an artist, moving from one medium to another, so swiftly finds their footing in the new and creates a piece of art that not only rivals but supersedes their previous work. Of course, Fritz Lang isn’t just any artist. Coming off of the 1929 silent film ‘Woman in the Moon’, audio synchronization technology had developed past its infancy, and it was becoming evident that the film industry was about to undergo a complete…
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