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Exodus 1960

★★★★ Rewatched 10 Jun 2024

Exodus is a mass misunderstanding of space where characters consistently pave over what is before them. In Sal Mineo’s key scene, he is humiliated by the Irgun when he lies about his complicity in Nazi concentration camps. He then joins the Irgun, continuing to aid the Nazi ideology that has caused him so much strife. Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint disagree over coexistence at Mount Tabor, claiming what they call the Valley of Jezreel (Marj Ibn Amir) for the…
Amuse-gueule #1: Digital Destinies 2012

★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2023

“And what remains? Well, what was there to begin with?” By emphasizing the notion that one is watching a Hollywood movie—via recognition of a screen, zine, or image framed by social media—the practice of viewing images can be reconsidered. The Amuse-Gueule series, the Good-bye, My Lady images, and Gina’s many other films, projects, and social media posts request greater awareness of the illusion of fictional characters, and thereby what they are affecting in our reality. Gina unearths ghosts that both…

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Run for Cover 1955

★★★★½ Rewatched 02 Dec 2024

Everything anyone could ever want from a performance. The grimace and hunch of James Cagney and the big blue eyes of John Derek. Cagney, an actor known for vast, drastic movements, withdraws his hand and becomes director. He widdles the wooden gun and points your eyesight, carefully taking his time to send his bullet into the hawk's heart. So, Cagney is director as father-figure. He listens to Derek and he tries new ideas, introduces new elements to his figure and…
The Prowler 1951

★★★★½ Rewatched 23 Nov 2024

Psychology made spectral, always political. Losey is always Marxist in his abolishment of the specter.
What I always notice in movies with a quicker diet of cutting is the aversion to the psychology of actors in favor of the propulsion of events by instances. Losey is the antithesis of this, we can see so in the majority of the shots with Evelyn Keyes, or how Van Heflin uses events and certainty as a manipulative tool, a policing tool.
This shot philosophy…

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All My Life 1966

★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Jul 2024

"We have to make seeing exciting again."
A monumental film for me. The film that made seeing exciting. A film I've seen dozens of times and still cannot explain. A film that is so material and expansive, every watch whether on 16mm or youtube feels totally new (it is!). And what a strange, beautiful song.
Happy birthday to Barbara Stanwyck and I.
The Substance 2024

½ Watched 01 Oct 2024 12

Cinema is dead long live cinema!!!

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