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Battleship Potemkin 1925
Ofc a massive slay. Feels ridiculous to place a value on such an important piece of KINO featuring shots and also actors and music. I loved the nighttime shots of the water, the lights glittering and transporting us to other worlds. The steps scene is just insanely horrible and I feel like such a blueprint. Revolutions are beautiful and horrible. Congrats to the king for inventing montage and managing to get his movie banned in several countries including the one he made it for. King shit.
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Possession 1981
Firstly, what. Secondly, and more importantly, why? Many critics look for symbolism in this movie, the motif of the doppelgänger, god/spirituality, the family, liquids, idk. I feel like you could do that, or you could say that some hetero guy went through a divorce and this was the fuckdd up shit that came out of his mind. My favourite things are the cinematography (the lighting is simply gorgeous and stunning) the choreography (of the actors and the camera like things…
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Camp de Thiaroye 1988
There are certain films have the capacity to induce such a rage that it’s as if your body is experiencing it for the first time. The last time before this I really remember feeling as such was Killers of the Flower Moon. This film is, truly, all the beauty and the bloodshed. Sembène is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and this film captures that incredible ability. It’s the perfect didactic film, it shows and it tells, it…
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Freaks 1932
A second watch of one of my all time favourite films ever. Genuinely the most care-forward, non exploitative, dynamic and fun representation of disability I've ever seen on screen. Makes sense that it's almost 100 years old now. Have thought a lot about 'freakdom' and sideshows and performative marginalisation for my PhD (tm) and in all honesty, this film offers a more generative / reparative reading / presentation than pretty much anything I've encountered. Neither dehumanising nor fetishising and 'supercrip'-ing.…
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