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Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
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Tyler1
On the contrary, I believe one has to be...
On the contrary, I believe one has to be masochist in order to make films for oneself and not for others. To know one's lineage, one's (national) cinema, one's socio-political environment - aren't...
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General Movie Discussion
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Introducing non-cinephiles to film
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Tyler1
Re: Introducing non-cinephiles to film
Three words. Sansho the Bailiff.
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General Movie Discussion
1 week ago
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I don't know how to hate films
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Tyler1
Re: I don't know how to hate films
I'm always on the side of articulating one's thoughts about the films one watches. This notion that concrete thought robs/impoverishes pure feelings is unfortunately, still a very prevalent IDEA held...
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Movie Reviews
1 week ago
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John Carpenter's The Thing
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Tyler1
This line of interpretation is itself the crux of...
This line of interpretation is itself the crux of the film. It doesn't so much deny the possibility of an answer, as it leaves open every possibility without foreclosing any one of them. It is akin...
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Movie Reviews
03-11-24
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Thinking About Film
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Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
Film #11: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
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When we recall the "past", we also actively re-create reality....
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General Movie Discussion
02-19-24
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186
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
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Tyler1
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Pasolini's Salo has Horkheimer written all over it. Clever move, as minio noted, by Pasolini at drawing in the audience but withholding the explicit material which thankfully meant that his film does...
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General Movie Discussion
02-19-24
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The Zone of Interest (2023)
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Tyler1
I'm also rather lukewarm towards Glazer's film....
I'm also rather lukewarm towards Glazer's film. The last truly important piece of documentation about the holocaust was Shoah (1985), tackling the tricky issue of collaborators and complicit...
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General Movie Discussion
02-19-24
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The Zone of Interest (2023)
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Tyler1
Re: The Zone of Interest (2023)
I notice similarities with another film about the holocaust Son of Saul (2015), most notably the idea that Evil exists on the margins/periphery. Notice how in Son of Saul, the protagonist can only...
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General Movie Discussion
02-19-24
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186
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By
Tyler1
Any analysis of Pasolini's Salo has to be...
Any analysis of Pasolini's Salo has to be political in nature as the film represented his thesis on power and tyranny, one that explicates the same arguments made by the Frankfurt/Marxist school of...
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Movie Reviews
08-10-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Film #9: Possession (Żuławski, 1981) ...
Film #9: Possession (Żuławski, 1981)
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The body as the site where forces of chaos (random chance) clash with the ideal...
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General Movie Discussion
08-02-23
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Understanding New Wave Films
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Tyler1
Re: Understanding New Wave Films
You may wish to read up on the two volumes of Deleuze's cinema books. What we now refer to as New Wave cinema, as Mr Minio has rightfully pointed out was not a movement with a singular manifesto...
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General Movie Discussion
08-01-23
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Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
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Tyler1
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Great review. Chris Marker and Alain Resnais are two directors whom I have the most appreciation for - no surprise, both were radical visionaries who made full use of cinema by pushing it farther...
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General Movie Discussion
07-31-23
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Science Fiction You Dearly Wish Someone Would Make Into a Movie
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Tyler1
Re: Science Fiction You Dearly Wish Someone Would Make Into a Movie
Anything written by Greg Egan. Moreso than any other sci-fi writer that I've read, his style of writing is characterized by speed, acceleration, aggregates, infinitives, curves, points of inflexion,...
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Upcoming Movies & Sequels
07-30-23
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195
Oppenheimer
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Tyler1
Re: Oppenheimer
Leave it to Nolan, the director who can be handed the keys to everything, to produce a 3hr film which is of such breakneck speed but says absolutely nothing. Not only is it visually unremarkable, it...
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Movie Reviews
07-28-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
Film #7: Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
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The precession of the simulacra where images dizzy the subject and drive it...
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Movie Reviews
07-28-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
Film #5: The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1969)
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The Color of Pomegranates is a radical film because it...
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Movie Reviews
07-28-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
Film #4: Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
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Analyze the...
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Movie Reviews
07-21-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
There's the age-old predicament about whether one's personal worldview (metaphysics, ontology, politics, ethics) pre-disposes one towards certain kinds of films, and whether appraisal and/or...
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Movie Reviews
07-21-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Yes I consider both Prelude: Dog Star Man and...
Yes I consider both Prelude: Dog Star Man and Jeanne Dielman as highly radical and innovative films, perhaps near the pinnacle of what cinema has ever attained. Hypothetically speaking, I would've...
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Movie Reviews
07-18-23
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Thinking About Film
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Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
Film #3: The Double Life of Véronique (Kieślowski, 1991)
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It is conceivable that we share the same thoughts and feelings as someone else, that...
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Movie Reviews
07-18-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
Film #2: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
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The singular event* that erupts at the end has...
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Movie Reviews
07-18-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Thinking About Film
Sharing my reviews of films that I find noteworthy. Most of the films reviewed here are personal favourites. The views expressed here are mine, though they are inspired and informed by readings I...
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General Movie Discussion
06-13-23
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Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
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Tyler1
Re: Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
I just realized I haven't properly replied to the question. Adding on to what has already been mentioned... I think Ordet is the definitive film about transcendence.
Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)...
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General Movie Discussion
06-13-23
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Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
Posted By
Tyler1
Re: Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
Just to be a little pedantic, but one of the most misused terms in cinema and by extension all of the arts is the term "transcendence". To transcend is to basically mean "to go out of"; to move...
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General Movie Discussion
06-13-23
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Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
Posted By
Tyler1
Re: Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
There are many facets of Buddhist philosophy that I find elegant and profound like the concepts of "sunyata" and "dependent arising", and others such as the asceticism and negation of desire which...
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