One of Haneke’s very best in my estimation. Enough has been said about the commentary he makes about media and, over stimulation, and isolation specifically when it comes to how we’re exposed to violence has created this detachment for people starting at a young age. But also it’s a scathing look at the bourgeois class and the levels people go to keep a veneer of civility. It’s a theme that comes up again and again in his work. His stellar…
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Hollywood Shuffle 1987
Black actors will never play the rambos until they stop playing the sambos”
The G.O.A.T. Paul Mooney pretty much summed this classic up.
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Tabernacle 101 2019
“The demons have created a computer virus and planted it on the dark web, it’s designed to shut down all online systems on Earth.”
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020
While he’s always been sharp with words, what I’ve always been struck with Kaufman is the inventiveness, the honesty and in the words of John Cuasak in Being John Malkovich “ the physiological questions” With this he pens his most poetic(I mean literal poetry excerpts) and abstract script yet. Other carry overs are musings and pontificating on identity, the artistic process, history, criticism, connection, mortality. A number of references and pieces of media reincorporated that mirror the characters and sequence…
