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the only downside to watching godard is being reminded of how witless and naively pictorial 95% of music in films is - even setting aside the director's perception of how to set music against and with images, the chromatic language and free admixture of folk adaptations with early modernism in the compositional language has been substituted in most movies with a horrendously vulgar sense of what constitutes "cinematic" music. the amateur playing of pickup orchestras and journeyman studio players has…
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not to be controversial, because i know there are some nominal adults who make disliking jazz into both a personality trait and neurosis, but i do think that if you are over the age of 20 and can still only enjoy music that has three chords and is in common time you have failed a critical test of maturity. the older you get the more notes you should need to approximate your feelings. if i make it to 80 the…
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feature length rick and morty ep for new york times readers
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★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Jun 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
What makes Lynch so fascinating is that he’s a conservative whose aesthetic tendencies (unerring empathy for/centering of his female characters, a proclivity for exploring dysphoric relationships between persons and their bodies/bodies and the world, and an affinity for the cynical epistemology of the noir) constantly undermine his nostalgic and otherwise regressive gestures. Nowhere is that more apparent than in The Return, a colossal moral reckoning with the willful failure of each and every available institution (cultural/political/social) to reckon with trauma.…
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