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Hi all, Along with my colleagues Ross Melnick and Rafael de Luna, I am co-editing a special section of the July 2023 issue of Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image on the topic of "Exhibition in Crisis." We seek to draw attention to the transformative effect that crises past and present have had on film exhibition as a mode of cultural practice, a set of institutions and actors, and an object of research in film and media studies. In this dossier, we hope to investigate the concept ...
Dan Roberts wrote on We Are Cult: ‘The Shuttered Room’ (1967) revisited ❉ The Red Door is opened one more time… [link ] A question to ponder. How many times should you watch a film in order to decide if you like it or not? This is something which has bubbled up recently with a film I first saw in 1981. I was eight years old and completely obsessed with horror films. Mainly old ones. My constant companion at that time was Alan Frank’s Horror Film Handbook and to me it was the King ...
Cinema's fascination with the 'suburb as simulation' trope Sam Kemp Fri 16th Sep 2022 06.00 BST Olvia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling hasn’t even opened in theatres, and it’s already being accused of employing some pretty tired cinematic trope...
Symbolism in Visual Images When one chooses to cross the boundary between visual symbolism (pictures), and textual symbolism, there are a few factors that should be noted. As the old adage goes "a picture is worth a thousand words." Visual symbolism can be complex, because often times there much more going on in the image than in, say, a given paragraph. Issues of size, perspective, location, and shading all play roles in the message a viewer derives from an image. Color is a major part of ...
Certain movies leave you feeling heavier than before you watched them. They make you confront the darker aspects of yourself and the world around you. These films are dark dramas. What makes dark drama such a special genre is that it encompasses others, especially thrillers and psychological drama. The battle between hope and nihilism is the center stage of these stories. They may even leave you surprised at which side you choose. All of these films tackle "taboo" subjects that usually re...
Though Owen Kline’s famous pedigree immediately presents itself in his surname, the more pertinent parentage to Funny Pages is that of New York City’s repertory cinema scene. Shortly after his performance in Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale drew considerable acclaim, Kline opted to pursue visual art rather than dive deeper into acting. Between curatorial work at Anthology Film Archives and his exploration of creating underground comic art, a unique sensibility emerged. At the same t...
"It might be that my empathy was miscalibrated that day, but I came out of Mediterranean Fever feeling worse than when I went in." There's a particular bleakness in brightness, a depth of contrast that makes shadows longer. Even without a subject as intensely personal the layered boundaries of a beach-front apartment in the occupied territories would give me plenty cause to deploy words like littoral or liminal. Literal too, as our protagonists has aspirations to writing. Th...
291. 3-IRON (2004) Bin-jip "It’s hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream."–closing quotation to 3-Iron DIRECTED BY: Ki-duk Kim FEATURING: Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon PLOT: A young man spends his days pinning advertising fliers to residences as a pretext to discover who in the neighborhood is on vacation; he then sneaks into their home and stays for a few days, always cleaning and fixing something around the house as a form of payment. One day h...
1989 was a busy year for underwater adventures. Bringing the raddest decade in history to a close was four different features, all taking place in the icy depths of the ocean floor. Undoubtedly the most widely known of the lot is James Cameron’s The Abyss, that made its appearance in the theatres in August, ranking as number two in the box office (Ron Howard’s comedy Parenthood keeping its place as #1). The film had been long time coming. Cameron had written a short story revolving around gro...
Ridley Scott’s film adaptation of Blade Runner came out in 1982. It’s since become the blueprint for high-tech, neon-soaked dystopia and cyberpunk aesthetics: cities emblazoned with colourful billboards and 24-hour artificial light. Six years prior to its release, Canadian photographer Greg Girard (b. 1955) arrived in Tokyo. "Blade Runner-esque" had yet to enter the lexicon, and he was soon entranced by this modern, futuristic city. Girard quickly turned his lens on the city’s people and glow...
The world of film has no shortage of brilliant cooking scenes. If you don’t believe us, just check out our list of the top ten greatest celebrations of food in cinema. From Pixar’s Ratatouille to Stanley Tucci’s mouth-watering Big Night, directors have depicted the ritual of cooking and eating together time and time again. This scene from the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas, in which mobster Henry Hill recalls how he and his gang made dinner in prison, is perhaps one of the most strangely heart...
Safe sex scenesSEX: Exploring the female body in Hollywood by tracing the making of sex scenes, the toll it takes on those involved, and what it means for women in the real world.Review written by Lauren WissotJuly 7, 2022For most of its history, Hollywood has been globally gaslighting the world, exporting the lie that the male gaze is somehow always benign or «neutral,» when of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. Fortunately, we now have Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s (Wonder Women! ...
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Männer (thing) See all of Männer, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Heisenberg (2.2 mon) Rep: 17 ( +21 / -4 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Wed Sep 24 2003 at 8:27:24 Successful German comedy about the weaker sex: men "Männer" (Men) hit a few german cinemas in 1985 as just another independent movie by some obscure german female writer/director. At that time, nobody really went to see german productions although the audience eagerly lapped up British and American films, mainly du...
"Is there a name for that thing where you’re afraid of something good happening ‘cause you think something bad’s gonna happen?’" "I dunno. Life?" I’ve been in the service industry for over fifteen years. Front of house, on the line, managing, bartending, bussing, you name it. I’ve also been an avid film and television fan for even longer, and in my thirty-plus years, I have yet to find a film or series that has made me feel as in the kitchen as The Bear does. An Authentic-Feeling Sli...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Umbrella Academy is about damaged people (thing) See all of The Umbrella Academy is about damaged people, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by justhvens Sat Jun 25 2022 at 21:39:21 But most of all, about people itself. Yes, I know how ironic it sounds, we're talking about "super-heros" here. Before I go on, lets set things straight: I've only watched the show, it's 5am and I didn't sleep, so let's take everything with a...
For beings forever trapped between life and death (a liminal state some may refer to as "Staten Island"), a lot’s going on with the vampires of "What We Do in the Shadows." Season 3 begins with Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) splitting duties as co-heads of their local vampiric council, supervised by The Guide (Kristen Schaal) and guarded by a newly promoted Guillermo (Harvey Guillén). This in turn leaves much of the day-to-day, or night-to-night, shenanigan...
By Ali Moosavi. I found this character tragic and moving. He had such a traumatic event happen to him and he couldn’t get free of it…. I think that’s something people can identify with…." –Michael Shannon There is a long tradition of movies about a woman or a man psychologically breaking down after living in a what is perceived to be a haunted property. The pinnacle of these movies are Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) and Kubrick’s The Shining (1980). Abandoned is a respectable l...
The Pentagon is finally acknowledging the existence of "unidentified aerial phenomena," and China recently reported one of its radio telescopes may have picked up signals from a galaxy far, far away. In 1987, astronomer Carl Sagan wrote Contact, a novel about how the world might react to a similar situation, and in July 1997, Robert Zemeckis' adaption of Sagan's novel hit the big screen. While not an atheist, Sagan repeatedly stressed that he saw no evidence for the existence of God...
Screens - Mind Matters podcast episodeScreens - Mind Matters podcast episode ・ Apr 15, 2022Our obsession today with screens is often unintentionally taking us to places we regretWe use these windows into the world for hours every day, often unaware how intentional content creators and app designers are in shaping our decisions and forming harmful habits.Thankfully, we can begin to go from unintentional with our screen use to intentional flipping that imbalance back into our favor, reclaimin...
The phrase film noir was first coined in 1946 by a group of French critics to describe the emerging movement of mainly black and white Hollywood films with dark, pessimistic themes and signature motifs such as alienated antiheroes, rain slicked streets, dark shadows and seductive femme fatales.Borrowing heavily from the hard-boiled but literary detective novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, film noir attracted some of cinema’s greatest craftsmen including Orson Welles, Howard Hawk...
"Depardieu's role feels underwritten, although you can't fault Truffaut for an accurate assessment of not just his character but the star when someone describes Bernard as being "a little like Jean Gabin, physical yet gentle"." | Photo: Courtesy of BFI/Jean-Pierre Fizet The confines of a theatre in occupied Paris provide the setting for a stew of stories in Francois Truffaut's The Last Metro - with the theatre a symbol of several types of escape. T...
