“I’m convinced that understanding the progression is a crucial bridge in any attempt to understand how the two distinct portions of Bergman’s filmography interact.”
“‘Bringing Up Baby’ delves joyfully beyond the stiff pretences of modern life to reveal the wild and lustful animal that still lies beneath the surface.”
“As both a man and an artist, Paul Robeson deserves more recognition in 2018 and beyond.”
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“New York might have the physical structure where one can project themselves onto a city, but Los Angeles’ mutability allows people to graft their life into its cultural fabric.”
“Art is a product of its time; is it Get Out’s fault that the time mostly resembles a horror production?”
“Maybe this war of innocence is one that’s never really won or lost. Maybe we just take life one battle at a time.”
“Lang’s film becomes a committed act of social justice advocacy, raging against its enforced limitation, and striving to break the formal apparatus that could often be employed to constrain Classic Hollywood cinema.”
“Even death can become tedious when one deals with it every day.”
“The processing conversation is perhaps the most telling sequence of all, as Quell submits to The Master — the Master Projection — and acknowledges his own self-deception.”
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“Bergman’s penchant for giving physical form to the conscious and subconscious mind is rarely more apparent than in his 1957 masterpiece ‘Wild Strawberries.’”
“Ghost Dog glides through the story with the swiftness of an avian being in a film that never fails to be cathartic.”
“At some point, you’ve got to take down the celebrity posters, or at least reassess what they represent.”
“A dance of layered visuals and eye-popping patterns, ‘Coco’ is well balanced with the understated”
“Martel’s film is an absolute masterpiece in visual symbolism and deserves to be seen on that basis alone.”
“He always took the horror genre seriously, and that often meant daring to laugh in the face of the darkest horrors, toeing the line between irony and total seriousness.”
“Observing the dangerous consequences of retreating too far into escapist entertainment, these two films suggest that beneath all this cultural noise is the unacknowledged truth that the most fervent of music nerds and fanboys may indeed be ‘scared as shit.’”
“The DC Extended Universe is not doomed, but it needs its own clear identity and purpose. Rebranding ‘The Avengers’ is not the answer.”
