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We must study Renoir.

Story of anarchist east asian anti-japan armed front member satoshi kirishima revealing his identity as he lay dying in hospital in 2024, where he had been admitted under a pseudonym he'd lived under for fifty years. Watchlisted. Can't wait for this one to get a wider release.

Great convo

Watchlisted.

"Sports, like art, act as a cultural binding agent, helping a nation cohere around a common identity, rallying a people to a healing catharsis when times are hard. Álvarez knew this as much as anyone, and sought to do his part to boost the morale of a proud but wounded people."

Great review.

Very interesting writeup.

"In the way Mulvey argues feminist cinema must actively exist outside and against mainstream structures, the same should be said about "Gen Z cinema". Backrooms-and, sight unseen, Obsession--are too reliant on conventional narratives to constitute a genuine revolution. Reinsve's character continuously reminds Ejiofor, and thus the spectator, that new paths must be formed, new neural connections, and his repressions (as embodied by the Backrooms) are hindering that. Nascent young filmmakers must do the same. The corporate Backrooms won't allow it otherwise."

Regardless of how "innocent" the content of a film may seem, the film always reflect a certain class point of view. Cinema corresponds to the cultural tastes and political needs of the society it represents. The overriding concern of a radical filmmaker is not in aestheticizing ideology but in politicizing cinema. Reactionaries will scoff at that, but not acknowledge that ALL cinema does this inherently, they just do it for reactionary and or bourgeois ideology, which is normalized as natural law.

Agreed.

Said it all.