Liberatory Art: What Passages Achieves in the History of Cinema and Desire
The dolly moves the camera away from or towards. These directions take on emotional resonances, depending on the object of the camera’s scrutiny, depending on how it wants them. “Dolly out” becomes...
View ArticleMaestro Slips into Easy Conversation with A Star is Born
Maestro opens and closes with two of the most familiarly lukewarm indulgences of the biopic: the epigraph that precedes the action and “real footage” of the “real person” that accompanies the credits....
View ArticleFerrari Performs an Opera of Capitalism and Comes Up Loud
Movies are loud. They are often written and written about in clamorous verbiage: they leer and loom, assault, pummel, and thunder. They are religion and sex strapped together into a rig of worshipful...
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