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The Northman 2022
For me, Eggers is one of the few filmmakers making films today that I pay much attention to and enthusiastically wait for new releases from. His previous two films, while different, still both operate in my mind as folkish tone poems that, at the very least, succeed in crafting an atmospheric image of place and time.
So when I was finally able to watch The Northman after a year of anticipation, watching some theatrical "me bark like dog. me bang…
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The Man Who Sleeps 1974
A french woman with a fetish for metaphors rattles on incessantly about disconnection and alienation in 1000 different flowery ways while images of a man walking, staring at things, and sometimes doing daily activities flash in the background to the sound of angry xerox machines. The only visual representation of thematic was empty scenery, low contrast bleak grey, and the main character being the focus of the shot due to lighting choice and blur. This seems awfully elementary even though…
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Sans Soleil 1983
I think every French person is born with the extraordinary gift of being capable of and keen on saying very obvious things that mean very little but using the most wordy and flowery diction possible. Let me yarn on about my dog’s bowel movement this morning as I illustrate a tenderly breaking dawn in the summer heat and relate this back to some contemporary art bullshit I’ve viewed. Don’t you ever just see a dog shitting and think about the…
