Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
in a backasswards way it really does the ideological work of centering american leftism as one of the prime movers of our social life, i can appreciate the clarity even if its hysterical. the international union shall be the human race! a twerp from gw did well to recognize there was a world historical struggle afoot. if the clarity however tenuous comes from some melding of conservative auterist form and historical content its just still so bizarre that liberals love…
sort of This Is Us but a movie and in the mode of PTA. with its episodic piling on of everything, why not, and this, it actually does feel more like tv melodrama than film epic. immigrant story, drug addiction, infidelity, masculinity, disability, race, design, class conflict, euro v american bourgeoisie, american exceptionalism, postwar industry, holocaust, zionism, etc, instead of a historical narrative that purposively brings them all in tow they’re just mashed together in some serialized thing that tv…
many scenes where people are impressed with bob dylan and a few where they are disappointed