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Ahed's Knee 2021
pretty joyous formally, pretty charged protest
simultaneously love the bursts of musicality and action, but also wish they amounted to more
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The General Line 1929
"Those who love Godard and/or Kenneth Anger will particularly delight in the bull's marriage ceremony, in which the animal's semen fertilizes the universe, though my favorite is the daringly masturbatory cream-separator scene." (Bill Marx, The Boston Phoenix)
most likely the weirdest eisenstein, wherein his use of montage almost atypically approaches being more poetic than functional. in addition to the great bull marriage sequence, there's also another that rapidly intercuts a worker's scythe against a tractor's against a grasshopper
