In Secret,
I wish for,
Under my own,
Every Night,
Caught in dreams,
I'll cry,
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Room Film 1973 1973
I appreciate the description, wherein Gidal attempts to negate the cognition and presence of the cameraperson. Such a negation transgresses the inference of image as subject, tying into his statement regarding the absence of representation. It's a logic that doesn't quite round its edges, albeit those moments of temporal or material puncture, where the fluidity of verité, obscured by umbra, is stunted in favour of light-leaks, scratches, and stuttering. In that, we only have what is visible and what is not upon the film frame. We watch the progress of response, a technical process thats alchemical faculties are so powerful as to veil their own illusion.
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Mikey and Nicky 1976
Elaine May knows men better than men are willing to admit they don't, and it's rightfully telegraphed into a tragedy on all sides.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
It’s rare to see a postmodernist perspective on the superhero film culture, a culture so deeply rooted in the traditions of a mindset rooted in escapism - a response to a world in the midsts of pre-nuclear wars. Comic book films have been so pre-occupied with capturing the essence of thematics contained within the source material that, while a substantial amount of the particulars are certainly relevant, there has been no attempt to transform our perceptions of such historically grandiose…