Dialogic Cinephilia - May 13, 2019

Claire Denis is the filmmaker I think of when I hear discussions of 'embodied cinema' - her aesthetic/style is all about bringing the intensity of human experience to the screen (whether in excitable moments or in the quiet stillness of reflection) and her/Godard's camera maps the body like a sensitive lover's caress. Juliette Binoche is one of the best actresses of the 21st Century and powerfully captures/releases the desires, fear, anxieties and hopes of her character. A great character study and exploration of the rational/irrational human desire to feel/connect.

Banaji, Mahzarin and Michael Rosenfled. "Radically Normal: How Gay Rights Activists Changed The Minds Of Their Opponents." Hidden Brain (April 8, 2019)

Cornum, Lou and Nick Estes. "Red Planet." The New Inquiry (May 8, 2019) ["An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance."]

"Costs of War." Watson Institute of International Relations at Brown University (2019 Report)

Crisis In Democracy: Renewing Trust in America. Aspen Institute, 2019. ["The Report of the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy."]

Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Metropolitan Books, 2007.

Koresky, Michael and Jeff Reichert. "This Means War! Introduction." Reverse Shot (June 23, 2003) ["Project for a New American Criticism,Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the War."]

Petzold, Christian. "Transit." The Close-Up (February 27, 2019) ["The internationally acclaimed cinema of German director Christian Petzold returns to the Film Society this Friday with Transit, a brilliant and haunting story of a European refugee who arrives in Marseille assuming the identity of a dead novelist after escaping two concentration camps."]

Shure, Natalie. "Sex Workers' Rights are Workers' Rights." Jacobin (May 1, 2019) ["Sex workers don’t need saving. They need what every other worker needs: the power to dictate the terms of their labor."]