Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
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there is something in the quality of Ruiz's imagination that summons up those primal Hollywood pleasures, something that connects to our first film-going experiences, when we weren't old enough to follow the plots and still too young to care. Lucas and Spielberg pursue these same memories in their films, but they're too literal minded, too committe
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But you get the sense that the film doesn’t direct its anger toward the big, bad corporation behind it all—instead, it spends most of its time lampooning the consumers who allowed themselves to be brainwashed by it. The cultural critic and blogger Mark Fisher has called this the film’s “gestural anti-capitalism,” and it is characteristic of Silicon
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because movies were a religion in that moment, they could change you, alter your perception, you could rise toward the screen and share a moment of transcendence, all the disappointments and fears would be wiped away for a few hours in that church: movies acted like a drug for me. But they were also about control: you were a voyeur sitting in the d
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