Post-WandaVision Marvel Rewatch

Early preconception of the narrative coordinates for Black Panther and its narrative of interventionism: Thor wants to act, wants to intervene in the conflict with the frost giants, but rather than being coded with race and colonialism here it’s arrogance and pride.

The Thor Who Fell to Earth but backwards cuz he brings his Asgardian vices to Earth and learns virtue // The Day the Thor Stood Still except obviously this Gort does not come in peace…

I Think Luis Buñuel Is My New Favorite Director?
Let's Complete His Filmography and Find Out! [13/15]

"Cela s'appelle l'aurore... inaugurates what one may call [Buñuel's] revolutionary triptych, the other panels of which are the first part of La Mort en ce Jardin and La Fièvre Monte à El Pao. Each of these films is, openly, or by implication, a study in the morality and tactics of armed revolution against a right-wing dictatorship."
–Raymond Durgnat, Luis Buñuel

"It's not about…

"Hey pretty girl, time to wake up."

There was a time not too long ago when if you asked me what my favorite movie was I might have told you Mulholland Drive. There's a lot going on in the film and I certainly won't claim to understand all of it (something I might have done when it was my "favorite movie"), but I do have a reading of it that seems to answer a lot of the questions it poses,…

Ever since I joined Letterboxd, nothing has scared me more than the idea of trying to write about 2001: A Space Odyssey. The fact that everything has "already been said" about this masterpiece has itself already been said so many times that there's not even an original means of expressing my lack of originality left at my disposal. So with the knowledge that I will probably never be able to fully encapsulate what makes this my favorite movie of all…