Welcome to the wonderful world of my brain. the posts consists of thoughts and ideas I couldn’t shake unless I spewed them onto this digital notebook. Do they all make sense? Unlikely. But if watching and studying movies all my life has taught me anything, it’s that cinema is about ideas. They’re all up there on the screen for us to see.
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If film as an artistic medium is measurable by its effectiveness at visually expressing thoughts, concepts, emotions, and/or ideas, then you’d be hard-pressed to find a better purveyor of the form than Robert Bresson. His career as a filmmaker spanned almost fifty years and yet he only directed 13 feature films, garnering praise and renown…
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“I’d like to be a caretaker. To look after houses. Look after guard-dogs. There are so many big houses…so many rooms…” Emptiness, in all its forms, is ever present in Agnes Varda’s 1985 road *document, VAGABOND. The sentiment above is expressed by Mona, a young vagrant girl traveling the French countryside, during one of a…
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The realization that your parents, or anyone in your immediate familial orbit (siblings, aunts, uncles) are flawed people, no matter which race, ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, or economic background you hail from, is something that eventually comes to us all. For some, it arrives tragically too soon. And for others it may come, mercifully or…
Partially Obstructed Cinema 