https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfU7M3RU63I&list=LL&index=1 Not the whole scene, but you should watch it anyway. Benedict Cumberbatch said about working in this scene that all he had to do was sit back and enjoy Gary Oldman do a one-man show. God bless, so do we. "What did he say?" his character asks a tipsy, midnight hour Smiley. A protagonist … Continue reading The best scene in Tinker Tailor (2011)
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Semi-short and bittersweet Nolanology for kvetches
Tenet is a goofy film. You have to be a really intellectual auteur to be allowed to work on such silly timey wimey stuff.
The Dragon’s Baby
Μαργαρίτα Παπαγεωργίου We only know her as Baby, and she does do baby, damsel in distress. She also does femme fatale. She does abuse survivor, war survivor, class survivor. She does tease and faithful friend. His friend. iMDB calls him Ogre, Franzen called him Fiend, the movie really calls him the Dragon. That's what you still call … Continue reading The Dragon’s Baby
Streaming has changed everything, again
The Guardian with the State of the Nation re the many ways the '10s have forever changed our media consumption habits: [...] something else has become apparent in the fallout over Netflix’s desecration of the theatrical experience. People are watching The Irishman and Marriage Story – millions of people, in fact, with many of them … Continue reading Streaming has changed everything, again
Tiers of Horror | a note
Horror, trash tier: the movie Oculus, which I once watched having decided I had abstained from horror far too long. Manipulative and meaningless, it didn't make a good case for lifting the ban. Some cool scares: I have seen the Devil, and he is me. Yet you kinda wish you had looked away--it's just not … Continue reading Tiers of Horror | a note
on Medium: How come US works?
But enough second-hand Zizek. It doesn’t matter so much, in the end, that you don’t know the specifics (well, the generics, even) of the Tethered project (chief question: what’s the Donald’s Tethered like?). As “the movies”, you’ve seen it all elaborated, somewhere, sometime (somewhat). You’re willing to concede that because, on one hand, the branching … Continue reading on Medium: How come US works?
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