film. art. perception.
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This review is “One From The Vaults,” and it first appeared on my writer’s portfolio site in February 2016– I have long since ceased blogging on that platform so I decided it would be apropos to give it new life here. The screening of Youth
Continue readingPaolo Sorrentino’s Youth: Film, Fonda, Faux Fellinis
Clocking in just shy of 30 minutes, Søren Sørensen’s short documentary film With Dad is a spare, tightly-focused chronicle of photographer Stephen DiRado’s quest to capture his father Gene’s final years as the elder DiRado succumbs to Alzheimer’s disease. Based on DiRado’s book of the
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FILM NOMADLAND. For starters, a film is ALWAYS a metaphor for its mode of production. I firmly believe that the above (paraphrased) declaration by film theorist and historian David E. James applies to ALL of cinema, indeed all
Continue readingNomadland: Movies, Metaphors, and Modes of Production
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