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<p><a href="#bram-stokers-dracula">Bram Stoker's Dracula</a></p>
<p><a href="#film-socialisme">Film Socialisme</a></p>
<p><a href="#zone-of-interest">The Zone of Interest</a></p>
<p><a href="#sinofuturism">Sinofuturism (1839 - 2046 AD)</a></p>
<p><a href="#red-desert">Red Desert</a></p>
<p><a href="#network">Network</a></p>
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<h1 id="bram-stokers-dracula">Bram Stoker's Dracula</h1>
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<p class="rating">★★★★</p>
<p class="bullet-spacer">•</p>
<p>127 mins</p>
<p class="bullet-spacer">•</p>
<p>1992</p>
<p class="bullet-spacer">•</p>
<p class="watch-date">Watched 02 Oct 2024</p>
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<p>Campy. Exciting. Neo-expressionism at its peak.</p>
<p>
These deep ridges on the red armor of Vlad Țepes are enough to feel
the passion exuded by this film. Eiko Ishioka encased him in solid,
eternal flesh. Beautiful rendition.
</p>
<p>
Stunning shots all the way through. Wynona's character's love
struggles unfold against the foggy courtyards and opulent interiors.
</p>
<p>
Their Romanian pronunctiation was too on the nose to take seriously,
but they name-dropped my hometown Bistrița, so I let it slip.
</p>
<p>
It's a fever dream world with echoes of Murnau. A cauldron of blood,
passion and lust.
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<h1 id="film-socialisme">Film Socialisme</h1>
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<p class="rating">★★★★★</p>
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<p>102 mins</p>
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<p>2010</p>
<p class="bullet-spacer">•</p>
<p class="watch-date">Watched 11 Jul 2024</p>
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Modernity’s flow being punctured by its concrete expressions. Godard
even prefigured it with Costa Concordia’s sinking.
</p>
<p>Communism lives on through the youth. Odessa. Gaza.</p>
<p>"Immagina un deserto."</p>
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<h1 id="zone-of-interest">The Zone of Interest</h1>
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<p class="rating">★★★★★</p>
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<p>105 mins</p>
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<p>2023</p>
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<p class="watch-date">Watched 07 Feb 2024</p>
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There’s a Native American tent that appears for about 5 seconds in one
of the picnic scenes and that told me everything I needed to know
about this film’s scope and portrayal of genocide and settler
expansion. It’s up there with Night and Fog & Come and See.
</p>
<p>There is nothing 'distant' or 'banal' about it.</p>
<p>
Mica Levi's music is beautifully haunting. Watching the film outside
of a cinema doesn't do it justice.
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<h1 id="sinofuturism">Sinofuturism (1839 - 2046 AD)</h1>
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<p class="rating">★★★★</p>
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<p>60 mins</p>
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<p>2016</p>
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<p class="watch-date">Watched 29 Sep 2023</p>
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"Where Sinofuturism intersects with gambling is in an intense belief
in the future."
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<h1 id="red-desert">Red Desert</h1>
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<p class="rating">★★★★★</p>
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<p>117 mins</p>
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<p>1964</p>
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<p class="watch-date">Watched 10 Aug 2023</p>
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The industrial landscapes transcend mere decor and mechanical
backdrops; they evolve into fully developed characters. Where else are
oil puddles and sludge lakes so keen on inducing madness to someone?
It reminded me of the planet in Solaris, bent on psychologically
destroying whatever comes before it. It's what makes it the most
interesting part of the cast.
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For all its pretenses of scientific knowledge while destroying any
fetters to its expansion, industrial modernity remains actively
<b>opaque</b>. When Giuliana asks "How can you predict what you
need?", there is no answer back from the machines. Their functioning
is simple-minded, short-sighted, unplanned. A polluting factory can go
on profitably much like a madman can still "function".
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Red Desert is not presenting us with a simple ecological indictement,
it rather speaks about the inherent instability at the heart of
modernity, which was supposed to be the culmination of perfect
rationality and science.
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Giuliana embodies this excess outside the parameters of reference.
Like exhaust, fumes, rusty red metal or other abstract forms of decay:
"There’s something terrible about reality and I don’t know what it
is."
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<h1 id="network">Network</h1>
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<p class="rating">★★★★★</p>
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<p>122 mins</p>
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<p>1976</p>
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<p class="watch-date">Watched 10 Jun 2023</p>
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<p>All opposition is coopted.</p>
<p>
All the popular misgrievings are domesticated, diverted into endless
and loud venting, just enough to keep the people away from enacting
any change. “I’m very mad!”-like commentary is now engagement bait on
Twitter’s For You.
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Californian counterculture is shedding its weak critique of the state
to instead lead the way as its most enlightened ideologist.
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The USA is correctly described as a cybernetically planned economy
just like the USSR, with capital having already established an
interconnected world that destroyed all semblance of nationhood, under
the reign of IBM, ITT etc. The bourgeois socialism of Jensen, in which
“all men will hold a share of stock” predicted the pipe dreams of
Silicon Valley ideologues aka the latest iteration of Network
managers.
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<p>Lunet hits the mark perfectly.</p>
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