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In Praise of Love 2001
A History of Waves: In Praise of Jean-Luc Godard
The history of cinema is a history of waves.
An elegy for the late Godard in the form of a fragmented short essay; with Gass, Rancière, Daney, and Twombly. Out now on my Substack.
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Eraserhead 1977
There are these intervals of pure abstraction: a black screen, white screen, bubbling water, sparks flying, squelching goo, etc.
Then there is Henry’s bedside photo of the Atomic Bomb explosion, Radiator Girl’s mushroomed cheeks.
There is the low rumbling, industrial noise.
The film erases itself as it plays out, such is the nature of a durational medium.
This is not a film about fatherhood, or at least not principally that; it’s a film about the end of everything.
Transcendent (a…
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Inland Empire 2006
Marked the proper end of Hollywood. It’s all just rabbits now, movies for rabbits.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
Electricity.
I don’t know what to say, I found it hard to look myself in the mirror afterward.
