Two straight days of calling attention to seemingly throwaway moments in art that nevertheless demonstrate the practical alchemy of the relationship between audience and art.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Scowl
“Why is this movie talking down to me?” is a criticism usually lobbed at “artsy-fartsy” cinema.
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Roles Roles Roles
Memory is slippery.
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Disparate
I wrote too soon.
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Posturing
The most underrated component of an actor’s performance: their posture.
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Three Thousand Years of Nope
What’s a bad miracle?
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Beasting
When dealing with a “fuck around and find out” movie about a bloodthirsty lion violently terrorizing an American family who decided to go on the wrong South African safari, I didn’t expect my main takeaway to revolve around the cinematography.
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Out of the Blue Fire, into the Superior Yet Unwritten Frying Pan
“The ending of one story can be the beginning of the next.”
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Staging
About 30 minutes into Breaking, a realization dawned on your boy:
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Splitsies
While by no means the noteworthiest element of I Love My Dad — that’d be the [redacted for spoilers] story, hun — how the movie shows the ways that incessant texting splits our everyday reality is rather adept.
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