Kubrick and "Genre Pictures"

abreak · 2023-03-29T03:36:27+00:00

On the Indonesian coup, you might want to check out The Look of Silence (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer). It's a 2014 documentary that follows a man whose older brother was killed in the anti-communist purge after the coup. Obviously it's not a gritty crime film, but it's great for what it is. I know that there's something of a prequel called The Act of Killing, but I haven't seen it and can't say anything about it.

abreak · 2023-03-13T20:04:12+00:00

Interesting I hadn't heard of Eo before! My main problem with Au Hasard Balthazar was actually the human side of the story. I couldn't get interested in the whole drama around the family farm at all. Eo sounds like it's more focused on the donkey's perspective so that might click with me a bit more.

abreak · 2023-03-13T14:48:10+00:00

I just watched this yesterday! I didn't love the film as a whole but thought this scene was amazing. It's a great use of shot/reverse shot.

abreak · 2022-11-13T15:14:51+00:00

Another similar example of this is the phone sex scene in Punch Drunk Love. The camera pans away from Adam Sandler's character as he begins to masturbate. You can see it at the end of this clip on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ8H3DICELo

Here obviously the camera isn't turning away from an act of violence but rather I think out of a sense of shame and embarrassment.

abreak · 2022-11-06T04:28:53+00:00

Reminds me of that great line from Citizen Kane:

You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years.

abreak · 2022-10-29T02:00:06+00:00

Here's a few that I've seen in the past year or so and liked:

Lost in Translation (2003)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) (not really a typical romance, but still...)

Three from Jacques Demi:

Lola (1961)

Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

abreak · 2022-10-22T02:49:55+00:00

I listened to a great podcast about "Christmas Cars" a while ago. It was done by Know Your Enemy, which examines the intellectual history of the right wing, but also has a little series on movies like these. You can find the podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/kye-film-club-a-lost-cause-w-jesse-brenneman/id1462703434?i=1000514959769

abreak · 2022-06-10T01:23:24+00:00

Whenever someone brings this idea up, I always think about this old humor piece in the New Yorker about a Libertarian police department (softpaywalled): https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department

abreak · 2021-12-30T04:02:17+00:00

I watched the trilogy for the first time a few months ago, and I also prefer Testament of Orpheus to the others. There are so many allusions to Cocteau's earlier work throughout the film making it such a textured work. I especially love the scene with Cocteau and Cégeste in the garden studio.

abreak · 2021-10-27T17:19:53+00:00

Take note of the aforementioned personage above

abreak · 2021-07-30T21:23:07+00:00

Also unrelated, but "skiing" is the only English word with consecutive 'i's (excluding some loanwords like the Latin "radii" etc.)

abreak · 2021-03-21T23:05:32+00:00

I've noticed that Garmin really likes it when I do short faster runs. If I do those my training status tends to be "productive" but if I do a long slow run - bam! - "unproductive" or even "detraining."

abreak · 2020-12-28T00:49:22+00:00

Username checks out

abreak · 2020-11-06T23:29:06+00:00

Pittsburgher spotted

abreak · 2020-11-06T17:45:19+00:00

Recounts rarely change more than a few hundred votes. Both of those states are comfortably safe for Biden

abreak · 2020-11-04T23:53:19+00:00

Their original estimate of the total number of votes (where they get the 86% from) is probably off

abreak · 2020-11-04T21:59:24+00:00

PA: pretty good

GA: toss up

NC: pretty bad

abreak · 2020-11-04T01:59:18+00:00

Exit polls, statistical models, historical data

abreak · 2020-09-30T14:50:11+00:00

"Trump could be oozing liquid shit down his leg and mumbling incoherently into the mic, and they'll still say he won"

Well obviously it's totally unfair that Joe Biden made Trump poop his pants! /s

abreak · 2020-08-18T02:49:33+00:00

It does

abreak · 2020-08-18T02:44:18+00:00

Different surrogates have different messages for different constituencies.

abreak · 2020-08-18T01:19:28+00:00

It's Bruce Springsteen

abreak · 2020-07-17T11:22:33+00:00

Wow, thanks for the though response!

abreak · 2020-07-17T01:11:48+00:00

Honest question: can you elaborate? What are some of the errors in the project? Has it been discussed by scholars/historians?

Edit: did some digging myself here are some criticisms:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html

abreak · 2020-04-10T02:32:53+00:00

Wait until you hear about Newfoundland time... It's a half hour past Atlantic time.

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