A very cute movie, parts of which made me inconsolably sad in a way I’m having difficulty shaking. I know this movie isn’t so pat as to be directly “about” climate collapse, but it captures so hauntingly the helpless incomprehension of the whole host of nonhuman life who are paying for our sins. There’s hope and deep beauty in the power of souls to connect across the abyss, but on the other hand if you REALLY want to cry you…
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Compound Eyes of Tropical 2022
When I was in high school I got invited in to rehearse with a gamelan band in somebody's attic in Lebanon, NH. 1993. I did two or three rehearsals. It was so fun, and it was also just what you're picturing. Running into this stop-motion animated film of a sacred mouse-deer made of crumpled newspaper trying to elude cellophane-tongued crocodiles in a churning pool seemingly made of broken glass while a mouse gamelan band goes to fucking TOWN in the…
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Showing Up 2022
It is so pitifully uncommon for a movie to depict the normal life of a non-famous working artist (or musician, writer, etc). Instead, every artist in every Hollywood movie is a striving winner genius destined for fame or a they’re a tragic sob story. And in conventional Hollywood movies there’s always this quasi-Calvinistic assumption that great work leads directly to recognition, that famous people got there because their work was great, that people who make great art are also fascinating…
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Days of Heaven 1978
Linda Manz's narration is so perfect. I always assumed Malick wrote it and it was one of those crushing things to know, one of those moments when you feel like an artist is so good you should just personally give up making art. When I learned Manz's voiceover was improvised years later in a desperate attempt to save the edit, I was able to more evenly distribute my admiration between Malick and Manz, and to feel grateful for Manz's openness…
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