Thursday, September 17, 2020

Dialogic Cinephilia - September 17, 2020

Baxter, John, et al. "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." The Projection Booth #145 (December 17, 2013)

Bengal, Rebecca. "Subvert Normality: The Streetwise Voice of Linda Manz." The Current (August 28, 2020)




Hudson, David. "Francis Lee's Ammonite." The Current (September 15, 2020)




Jimenez, Simon. "The Labor of Creativity: Celebrating Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke." Tor (August 28, 2020) ["And indeed one sees the world by his side, and not, as is the traditional POV, “through his eyes”, for this point speaks to one of Miyazaki’s hallmarks as an artist: his framing of his characters as living within a world greater than themselves. In his films, and Princess Mononoke especially, whose themes demand such attention, the natural background is as “foregrounded” as the characters that walk through it. Close ups are used sparingly. The stars of the show are the exquisite paintings of ancient forests and roiling rivers and rocks with texture and weight that imply the history of erosion and tectonic uplift. Wooden beams bound in loops of rope and which compose the uneven ladders that stretch up to precarious watchtowers that are built to such believable schematics. Drawings of such detail, we understood intuitively, on sight, that this world is real, and populated by people of history, and objects of context. It is context that gives his work power. A person is as much defined by their actions as they are by the society they live in, and the geographic plane they travel through, or harvest."]

Jones, Eileen. "The Only Thing You Need to Read About the Inane Cuties Controversy." Jacobin (September 15, 2020)




Shambu, Girish. "Beau Travail: A Cinema of Sensation." The Current (September 15, 2020)














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