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Monthly Archives: December 2010
My Favorite (Depressing) Christmas Movies
If gingerbread cookies and home-knit sweaters have got you feeling all warm inside, here are three holiday classics guaranteed to have your soul feeling as cold and empty as the windy, lifeless snowscape outside. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. … Continue reading
THX 1138
THX 1138 (1971) dir. George Lucas I watched THX 1138 again, thinking I might have missed something in my first viewing. I hadn’t. THX 1138 is instructive because of where it fails as a dystopia. It succeeds in its atmosphere. … Continue reading
Alex DeLarge and Prince Myshkin
A Clockwork Orange (1971) dir. Stanley Kubrick “imagine a human subject devoid of the defense mechanisms produced by a history of hurting and being hurt, of choices and therefore of exclusions; imagine someone who has never had to make a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Clockwork Orange, choice, Christianity, dystopia, dystopias, free will, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rowan Williams, Stanley Kubrick, The Idiot, theodicy
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Festen (The Celebration)
Festen - The Celebration (1998) dir. Thomas Vinterberg I’d hate to be a tripod salesman in Europe. Although the list of rules has been thrown out, the low-fi, handheld, naturally lit style that Dogme 95 represented is pretty much the norm … Continue reading
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Tagged Dogme 95, Festen, film, movies, The Celebration, Thomas Vinterberg, TSPDT
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10 Hottest Women Alive – 2010
The 7th annual Hottest Women Alive list is finally here! But before you scroll down, first a word on methodology: Objectifying naked women based on physical attractiveness is considered bigoted and low-class. So, The Metropolis Times chooses to take a … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Rock, Academy Awards, Anna Kendrick, astrobiology, Black Swan, Carey Mulligan, darren aronofsky, Date Night, Emma Watson, Felisa Wolfe-Simon, GFAJ-1, Harry Potter, hot women, Jordan, Kate Middleton, Keira Knightley, Lindsey Vonn, Megyn Kelly, My Fair Lady, Natalie Portman, Never Let Me Go, objectification, Queen Rania, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Tina Fey, Twilight, Up in the Air, Vancouver 2010, women, World Economic Forum
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Dr. Zaius Was Right
Planet of the Apes (1968) dir. Franklin J. Schaffner For the first hour and forty minutes, Planet of the Apes plays like a standard anti-theocratic dystopia. Prisoner Charlton Heston is given a brief look at ape society, which is ruled dogmatically by … Continue reading
