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Conical Solid 1974
Saw this projected through a cave. Anti-illusory and anti-fascist in the vein of Arnulf Rainer. A very welcome end to this week.
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Blonde Death 1984
Blonde Death:______::______:______
(a) Badlands, Polyester, All That Heaven Allows
(d) a filthy blonde slut with Tang, Breathless, a girl and a gun
(b) Jules and Jim, Batman Dracula, Nosferatu
(c) gidget, Mean Girls, fetch
(e) Debby Reynolds' "Tammy", Lost in Translation, Roxy Music's "More Than This"I mean, I don't actually know. I didn't go to a school for analogies.
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Crossroads 1976
A study of the figure of a mushroom cloud, refracted through space and time. Gleeson faithfully reimagines the actual sound, down to the wildlife sounds. It eventually gives way to Riley's drone score, and then everything tilts toward the sublime.
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Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures 1979
A man goes to the mansion of a notorious spy, where he quite literally falls under her spell. Yes, it's the plot of half a dozen similar films, but that's either beside the point or part of it.
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures starts off with simple, static long shots resembling what Burch calls the "mature, primitive" period of early films. The narrative lurches forward and backward in time, occasionally replaying the same scene. The progression…