a suspense picture through and through, visually and thematically drawing from hitchcock. made me think about the inherent perverse nature of certain kinds of art and those that engage with them: the consumer doesn’t just want implication but impact - presenting journalistic crime scene photography and constructed melodrama as two sides of the same sadistic coin, two means to the same end of gratification. a callback to an implicit visual gag used by hitchcock is prefaced with the explicit -…
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Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom 2021
dylan’s xanadu, a kingdom built by song now occupied by shadow. each tune is given its own tableau, a moment frozen in time - to be imitated but never replicated. silent applause for a stage obfuscated by smoke - the only thing we remember is the music, but even that has changed.
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974
wonderful framing wonderful blocking wonderful acting wonderful film. lost me a little in the third act but brought it all back home in the end. its crazy how people are still this racist
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 2019
a bob dylan story by martin scorsese. just the coolest fucking thing
the hurricane section of this film is the most epic thing i’ve ever seen
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David Lynch Cooks Quinoa 2007
david lynch on death:
it’s like there’s a guy in a very old car, and he drives it down to the junkyard and sits in it for a while and then gets out of the car and closes the door and walks away. the car is the body, but you just keep going
