Film & Television
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“Death is both a limit – and, simultaneously, on the level of design, not an end but a way for the text to be” Eugenie Brinkema – Life-Destroying Diagrams Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is a film mired in its own ending. If there’s something I remember about my first time seeing it, it’s how much I…
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“In these strange times” is becoming one of those endlessly repeated platitudes that are becomes such a staple of journalese, something that we type out in lieu of anything else, that fills a hole rather than saying anything and belies the morbidity of a media largely resigned to simply delivering tautological reiterations of the current…
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Recently, there seems to have been an explosion of films implicitly or explicitly about class divisions becoming a popular concern. This years best picture winner at the Oscars, Parasite, held class as its central dynamic; where some have argued that its popularity and critical acclaim, which doesn’t escape without some degree of irony, are testament…
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“Don’t think of it that way” McClane said severely. “You’re not accepting second-best. The actual memory, with all it’s vagueness, omissions and ellipses, not to say distortions – that’s second-best” Phillip K Dick’s We Can Remember it For You Wholesale I recently, for whatever reason, decided on a whim to watch the 2012 remake of…