When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
Film narratives, images and ideas frequently go further than the conscious intentions of those who make them.
Christopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious
Again, why do films have to be these static, fixed things? Why can’t they be these fluid, storytelling structures that you could keep adding things to and keep revising? Yeah, it’s always been this constraint of the medium, that now, when everything is digital, there’s no physical media that we’re dealing with with film. So, why are we still held b... See more
The making of Eno, the first generative feature film
Like Los Angeles itself, politics and criticism sometimes need to be disguised or de-emphasized in order to register with effectiveness as entertainment.
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
Film uses disorder to create order of another sort … Film's response to modernity a century ago was to bind its chaos into form by crafting it. Our response a century later is identical. Like film, we create reality by framing life's events, focusing on its particulars. Our angles, values, interactions construct the world in which we live. We are m
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