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The Birth of a Nation 1915
broke: The Birth of a Nation is racist, but we mustn't neglect its film-historical impact
woke: no amount of formal innovation can excuse such virulent racism
bespoke: its film-historical impact is bad too because it invented movies that are way too long
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Variations 1998
Maybe, post-American Beauty, it's hard to take seriously a film that aestheticizes a plastic bag being blown by the wind, and maybe, imminently pre-climate collapse, it's hard to take seriously a film that aestheticizes human detritus in general, but Dorsky makes it worth the effort.
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The Public Woman 1984
The library DVD stopped working with like 5 minutes to go, which really doesn't help the argument against piracy.
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Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 1974
An excursus on Japanese movie titles:
There are two trends in Japanese movie titles that I don't see that much in other countries. First is the tendency for some of the classical directors to have a bunch of films with confusingly similar titles. Naruse has Floating Clouds and Scattered Clouds, and about a million films with "wife" or "woman" in the title (and even one with both). Ozu has the "I Blanked, But..." films, a bunch of movies with "Tokyo"…
