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Behind the Masks 1973
this somehow made me trust lévi-strauss both less and more? glad we’re past this phase of anthropology :))
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Dune: Part Two 2024
less downright laughable writing & acting than the first, and plot-wise much more intricate. there’s no room for emotions on this degree of grandeur and i wish they didn’t try so hard attempting to squeeze emotions into the film (which made for some of its most unconvincing sequences). like many ppl have said the problems of the first remain. most of this, apart from the ending, is better than the first imo. quite interesting also to see how the writers have…
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Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence 2017
Francis Bacon's life and art has enough substance and brutal strangeness to uphold and transfigure, even a weaker documentary than this, into a kind of mysterious vortex.
The documentary itself is rather standard and straightforward; a chronological retrospective of the artist's life, which is slowly and surely, but not even close to completely, unveiled by the charming guest interviewees, most of whom are Bacon's friends, of differing intimacy, who each have their own nuanced view of him.
My only two…
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Monangambeee 1968
This film feels like it lies beneath layers of dust, undiscovered, with the weight of a piece of historical revolution. I'm glad I got to watch this thanks to the journal Another Gaze, but I'm afraid my absolute ignorance of historical context means that most of its meaning and function lies obscured to me. I don't want to reduce it to aesthetics, but what I appreciated most were the harsh contrast of shadow and light, the wonderful framing and brooding, manic jazz underscoring everything. I could feel the desolation, anger, determination and injustice emanating from these elements alone.
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