one of those movies that i thought was good when i saw it (not great, but still good) BUT have found myself thinking about more than i expected
its a very fine example of the ways in which battles over space utilise the space itself as the medium through which the fight occurs: both Clara, the last remaining resident of the Aquarius building, and the developers, who just need her to move out to begin making a profit, find that…
can't help but find every movie about two beautiful charming people falling rapidly in love to be a story about how people like us will never inspire love at first sight. indeed each moment is a privation of falling in love, we manage not to fall in love an infinite number of times every day. standing up, getting into cars. not falling in love
in the first five minutes of Danton, a child is made to recite The Declaration of the Rights of Man, and receives a slap on the wrist whenever he gets a word wrong. at least the movie is stating it's politics up top
my college has a long long history of oratory as an art-form. the largest student society is dedicated to formal debates on mind-numbing topics, which draw enormous crowds. i never say this publicly, because the school is…
in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, a young woman is tasked with finding the creator of mysterious film clips which have been slowly appearing online. these clips have accumulated an enormous passionate fan-base, who refer to themselves as "footageheads" and take to forums to share fan theories and speculate about the origin of the "footage". as the protagonist of Pattern Recognition begins to uncover hints on where these video clips come from, she begins to realize that the people who have…
