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How Music Ruined a Potential Masterpiece: Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and its Greatest Failing
There’s much in Nolan’s audacious new feature worth commending, chief among which is the underlying conceptual apparatus of time and rhythm and the greatly immersive experience it generates. Cross cutting between three divergent storlines yet maintaining a parallel flow of … Continue reading
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Tagged 70mm, aesthetic experience, aesthetics, andre bazin, blockbuster films, christopher nolan, cillian murphy, climax, commodity, concept, defamiliarization, dunkirk, dziga vertov, eisenstein, film, films of 2017, fionn whitehead, hans zimmer, hegemony, imax, in medias res, kenneth branagh, mark rylance, memento, Montage, music, Narrative, nolan, ost, perception, philosophy, pure cinema, rhythm, score, soundtrack, soviet montage, Spectacle, storytelling, summer film, Time, tom hardy, world war II
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Bloodsport: A Prime Example of Affective Cinema
In spite of nostalgia’s effect on my revision, and in spite of Bloodsport’s apparent contrast to what we generally deem cinematic art, the cult-classic remains fastened on the minds of many a cinephile. Such a phenomenon surely calls for retrospection, and … Continue reading
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Tagged affective cinema, bad films, bela tarr, bergson, bloodsport, bolo yeung, chong lee, cinematic art, Cinephile, cult, cult cinema, deleuze, eisenstein, emotion, frank dux, good bad films, guilty pleasure, high-art, intuition, jean claude van damme, kumite, low-art, martial arts, Meditation, Narrative, newt arnold, perception, post cinematic affect, razzie, retrospection, review, revision, sound image, space image, steven shaviro, time image, total image, Transformation, vulgar auteurism
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A Misstep in Film History: Wim Wenders Wings of Desire and Its Masterpiece Status
Although Wenders’ film is masterfully crafted, with some absolutely glorious camera movements, use of light, black and white, and colour, the script reeks of pretense. Wender’s narrative, well intentioned as may be, is too self serious to convey fantasy, yet … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, bruno ganz, Cannes, cinema, cinema classic, Cinematography, English, film history, film masterpiece, french, german, germany, human condition, masterpiece, Narrative, nick cave, nick cave and the bad seeds, otto sander, peter falk, philosophy, Poetry, pseudo philosophy, pseudo spirituality, Spirit, Spirituality, trapeze, War, wim wenders, wings, wings of desire
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The Artist (Hazanavicius, 2012)
An unremarkable faux-silent era film. A safe, conventional narrative in a novel, not so novel, package. Lacks the charm of the silent era, and only moderately offers silent film techniques. Way too little visual dialogue for a silent: much performance, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Best Picture, black and white, charm, dancing, film, Hazanavicius, james cromwell, jean dujardin, john goodman, Movies, Narrative, Oscar, oscar bait, ovverrated, revue, silent era, silent film, talkies, the artist
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Aesthetics Of The Mind 