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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Scorpio Rising: The Anti-Mad Men, Anti-American Graffiti
There are two reasons to enjoy Scorpio Rising – the conflicted legacy of our liberal post-war, post-Christendom culture, and the techniques Scorpio uses to describe those tensions. Continue reading
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Tagged Anton LaVey, Ben Stein, Elvis Presley, hippies, James Dean, Kenneth Anger, montage, movie reviews, movies, Scorpio Rising, short film, TSPDT
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Horror of the Absurd
I prefer absurd horror. Naturalism and magical realism take all the fun out of it. I don’t want to take out the DVD and know that if I simply avoid this particular campsite or houses built on ancient Indian burial grounds, I’ll be safe. I don’t want to know about the troubled childhood of the ghost or the serial killer. The true horrors are in the unknown, and more so, in the unknowable. Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrei Tarkovsky, Blindness, Cube, Fernando Meirelles, film, High Rise, horror, La cabina, lord of the flies, Luis Buñuel, M. Night Shyamalan, movie reviews, movies, Stalker, The Birds, the exterminating angel, The Happening, TSPDT, Vicenzo Natali
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Un chant d’amour
I feel more than a bit under-qualified to comment on Un chant d’amour. I know little about LGBT cinema and nothing about Jean Genet, outside of what I’ve read following my viewing. Despite my ignorance, Un chant d’amour speaks on … Continue reading
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Tagged a song of love, film, Jean Genet, LGBT, LGBT film, LGBTQ, movies, Queer cinema, TSPDT, Un chant d'amour
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Forgetting, Hiroshima, Mon Amour
The “temporary survivors” attempt to communicate their experience, to preserve their memories. We get photographs that are politicized, a museum that is a destination for weeping tourists, a staged re-production for a commercial film and symbolic story that many, like … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Alain Resnais, atomic bomb, Columbine, film, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Mon Amour, holocaust, memory, movies, Nagasaki, TSPDT, World War II
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Sansho the Bailiff – Liberal, Japanese Values
Zushiô’s father is an anachronistic Lockean, telling his son “Men are created equal. Everyone is entitled to their happiness.” His commitment to Enlightenment ideals doesn’t play over well in 11th Century Japan, and his family is exiled. They don’t even … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, film, Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi, Legend of Bailiff Sansho, liberalism, movies, politics, religion, Sansho the Bailiff, TSPDT, World War II
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