Because I’m a fan of nuance, allow me to complicate my recent treatises on my preferred brand of art.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Useless
Remember when I wrote about the uselessness of subjective declarations of artistic taste?
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‘A’ is for Apple
Remember when I wrote about frameworks?
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FYCD
What do Being a Human Person, Val, and The Sparks Brothers have in common?
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What’s in a Genre?
Does it matter whether or not The French Dispatch is considered an anthology?
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Slipstream
Becoming Cousteau being released on the same day as The French Dispatch: coincidence or marketing slipstream?
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Talking About the Heads
Let’s talk some more about talking-head documentaries:
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Dog or Dook (Dook Dook)
A technical detail as unnoticeable as a seemingly-peripheral sound effect can change how a movie plays.
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Reacting Heads
Towards this end, let’s investigate a documentary convention that could distort what’s being documented:
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Yes, I Read Books
Is Sally Rooney the literary Nanfu Wang??
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