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  Nosferatu 2024

  Watched 10 Mar 2025 1

  Dafoe Von Franz — badger 
  Thomas — baby badger 
  Ellen — chinchilla 
  Friedrich — opossum or degu
  Doctor Wilhelm — beaver
  Orlok — rat 
  Knock — muskrat

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  A Plate of Sardines 1997

  Watched 10 Mar 2025

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 May 2024

  Kubrick’s 2001 rhythms, faces, and interfaces enclose your gaze with the horizon of 9000 suns. Then they make you ask Arthur C. Clarke coded questions— Will we go back to dust? Have we ever really escaped childhood’s end?

  It’s true we've blazed from monoliths of Axum (የአክሱም ሐውልት), the Nubian pyramids of Meroë (مرواه), to modern skyscrapers (that merely scrape the sky) and then rocket ships (that ¡triumphantly! penetrate that same sky). All in three millennia we made these menhir…

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  Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989

  Watched 01 Mar 2024 2

  Humanity is only a maggot with lots of metal metamorphosis left to do. So where are we headed?

  Today at Metro Cinema and at other seated events we're used to phones dropping to a clamor on the floor because we have trouble letting go of them, or even stashing them in our pockets. We carry those black mirrors right on our sleeves (or in this case our laps).

  Then there's the violence of machinery and the gash and slash brutality…