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Repo Man 1984
Punk asshole-ism sliding neatly into capitalist asshole-ism. Waiting for a flying green radioactive car to take me away from my own destiny. To its credit, the film only gives half a shit about plot (that’s why there’s so much of it), but is very much in love with its own ramshackle-ness, which is of a piece with its LA no man’s land environs.
Director Alex Cox’s punk throw-it-all-in-a-blender ethos an interesting pairing with the beautiful and despairing cinema of modern…
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The Gospel According to Matthew 1964
It brings us back to the early, subversive church, before the church became something else entirely. Pasolini introduces us to a zeal that is intoxicatingly joyful, even when it admonishes, a vision of a society which feels real, even as every rational fiber of our being reminds us that we ourselves have never known a society founded in love. But that it is there on the screen cannot be denied, and this is the miracle.
The film is a composite—of…
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Quest 1984
Man walks through a series of prog album covers in order to save his people from their eight day lifespans. To say this is incredibly corny is to miss the point. It is perfectly corny. Directed by Saul Bass, a man who thought in visual slogans, every line of dialogue is redundant. Not a film where a man travels through a barren temple and climbs a pyramid to play a game of silver pyramids and cubes with an ape, only…
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Black Panthers 1968
Unusually restrained Varda films the Black Panthers as they protest Huey Newton’s arrest in 1968. Varda is enamored of her subjects, and the narration has absorbed the flavor of their militancy. Undeniably much of what the Black Panthers stood for was righteous, but there is no revolutionary movement which should be exempt from scrutiny. Luckily the camera does some of the work here, in addition to producing striking images of a community spurred to action. That the people chanting “kill…
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