Letterboxd — Your life in film

Deeply yearning for more pictures that recognize the schism of affect in narrativity and form, and the bifurcation of ideology that can be simultaneously articulated in contradiction through a well orchestrated structure. As far as American films go, it was here, then a large gap, then Old. Perhaps I’m forgetting one or two…

A soft extrapolation of religiosity, nothing much to consider further…

The privilege to lose oneself is a promise hurdling towards nothing.

Sturdy work. Wonderful use of negative space as an active negotiator for scale. The battle between images of western and sci-fi and horror cradles the flimsy thematic — used really only to motivate the puncture of the diegetic gaze  giving momentum to the action — which seeks this staggering gesture towards the legends history gets made into: cinema, its violences, and the Angel and its violences, too, all wrapped up in the iconography of that which remains both unidentified and conspicuous. Laid back and playful spectacle that writhes in a dopey reflexivity.

Being looked back at is all it takes, here. All about the image, baby.

A 3hr montage thats failure is to seek pathos at the core of its construct. A machine that’s yearning for blood, which in itself is a fascinating extrapolation that I’m happy to have.

We’re at the child soldiers are cool phase of this. Very excited to see what’s next. Unsure what this was about?

I did not sign up for a Gru origin story to be Plot A. This is MINIONS: rise of gru, please why not a 90 minute hyperactive desensitization to thought that’s at least 87% composed entirely of maximalist physical comedy. If you want to fit a plot into the remainder, go ahead, but have the decency to know where your strengths lie.

*Hammer and Sickle emoji*

Pacino running down the stairs, out of the hospital, a glean of pure adrenaline and joy in his eye - that’s the good stuff

The New Yorker