wanderingdiatribe

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—cocksucker blues might be better or more rock and roll but this is a more cogently put across story/end of the sixties fantastically captured/love the lawyer/when they watch the footage of the guy getting stabbed, mick’s face/hippies combing the hills at very end with the sun setting great expressive idea—

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Eye Myth dir. Stan Brakhage (1967)

This nine second film took a year to make, wherein Brakhage painstakingly painted each image directly onto film cells creating an extremely condensed body of work of an epic size.

—this was uplifting as hell/learned about from when peter staley and jim eigo came to Baruch College and was moved then as well/larry kramer breaking up the tumult at the meeting climax/events and footage that really need to be more widespread and understood/amazing how much occupy drew from ideas and organizational tools they set forth/Bob Rafsky and Spencer Cox’s deaths hurt now—

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Rhythmus 21 dir. Hans Richter (1921)

—Solid performances all around/hurt’s stoicism.../how stamp handles his capture is interestingly undermines the criminal’s motives and actions in great ways/spanish countryside/’the girl is a shitkicker with a great rack’/love when she eats hurt’s hand/scene with the austrailian in hurt’s Madrid apt/hurt get’s hunted down in a furniture store... that prosaic deth-awezome/roth is such a punk it’s great—

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Meshes of the Afternoon dir. Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid (1943).  

This amazing experimental film was written, directed, and acted by the husband and wife team of Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid.

—saw at anthology film archives/the café scene where they first meet the girl/I love how the B&W and color change more or less indifferently while the tone or style of the film changes in a very mannered fashion/every surreal or stylized element is well done/stealing a motor cycle/school massacre is tastefully done as I’ve ever scene it, pretty amazing/the guy in the suit of armor/’you, bastards!’ old lady—

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—amazing debut/phillip baker hall has some great one-liners/Scorsese influence in the long tracking shots/Gwyneth is sexysexy/ Grounded in central metaphor of the ‘Hard Eight’/like the motel scene and it’s intensity and funniness/Jackson has one of his best performances here or maybe its good writing—

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—Curtis and Lemmon got on better together than I had expected/wouldn’t be surprised if a queer theory thesis or two took up this film as its subject/a bit old fashioned but surprising in how far some of the drag queen stuff was taken and how risqué Marilyn was dressing/still not as good as some of wilder’s darker stuff but it zips along and is damn enjoyable comic romp/use of running gags like the blood type one are curious—

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—best board game to movie adaptation I think/Yvette good lord Yvette/taught and funny script that moves along at a nice pace/soup slurping/Michael McKean is particularly good here as is Tim Curry/great use of gesture to communicate comedy/multiple endings works despite being gimmicky because of source material and tone—

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Emak-Bakia dir. Man Ray (1926) A "cinépoéme," this short film by avant garde old hand Man Ray is a sincere sensation. 

—(3rd time) didn’t know Peter Weir directed this one/haven’t seen since I was a kid/thought I was in for a nostalgia watch of a flawed film and ended up being much more interesting than I anticipated/morally dubious future entertainment dedicated to a gross obsession with an American fictional past/reinforcing of solipsism/interesting leaving the garden ending which is classic tragedy overcoming of moral isolationism/brings to mind how the only truly moral life is one that is more or less adaptable or exposed to a grayscale or free will based existence with the outside world/what brings the Truman experiment trouble as a utopia is it’s dedication to the aforementioned fictional past within a global world/the latter thrusts Truman into questioning the fabric of his life and its occurrences/although its topicality seems to have weened due to the decline of television and rise of the internet I think it survives as a very interesting relic given its context esp. because of how popular it was/DFW comparison—

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