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The Eighteenth #brumaire of Louis #bonaparte - Chapter 1
Karl #marx
December 1851 - March 1852
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
#marxism #history #tradition #revolution
January 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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"Everything everywhere is the same. The whole fucking storytelling thing is everywhere the same. That’s why I decided I have to do my movies."

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-bela-tarr-the-complete-works/
January 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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"Once the future was a continuation of the present, and all changes were looking somewhere on the horizon. Now the future is part of the present. You think they're prepared for that? They don't want to know anything. They just devour".

Stalker
Screenplay by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky […]
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January 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Cloud
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2024
#film #movies #cinema #movie #japan
> A bleek neo-noir film of vengeance about the breakdown of society and moral norms in our increasingly always online world. A good cast, some expert photography, and Kurosawa's mostly excellent […]

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A medium shot of a Japanese man sitting in a very dark place. His face is barely visible in the green glow and pins of light are visible in his eyes. He is looking straight ahead, his facial expression utterly even, still, dead.
January 9, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Sirat
Oliver Laxe
2025
#film #movies #cinema #movie #spain #morocco
> Good performances from a mostly amateur cast, with excellent photography and sound design work. The script loses momentum and runs out of ideas in the second part of the film, after the […]

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Wide shot of a man seemingly standing between two massive camping cars. The two dusty and beaten vehicles are parked closer to us, a few meters apart. It is through this wide gap that the man can be seen. Wearing a pair of jeans and a blue shirt, the solitary man's looking down, his body turned slightly to the right. Behind him, a flat red desert extends far into the distance under a dusty blue sky.
January 8, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Highest 2 Lowest
Spike Le
2025
#film #movies #cinema #movie #us
> Incredibly stale film-making, with scenes verging on the ridiculous, supporting a preachy and sentimental script. Awful.
A panoramic shot of a man in blue suit talking on the phone while standing on a balcony overseeing a breathtaking view of Manhattan under the sun and a cloudless blue sky.
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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"When you look at the colour blue ... your brain ... computes a description, then attributes an experience of blue to itself. The process is all descriptions and conclusions and computations. Subjective experience, in the theory, is something like a myth that the brain tells itself. The brain […]
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December 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonça Filho
2025
#film #movies #cinema #movie #brasil
> Supported by a large cast of wonderful character actors lead by an excellent Wagner Moura, this ambitious film falls short of greatness. Mostly succeeding at subverting […]

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A young, dark, olive skinned boy, sitting in the back of a moving car, looks at the driver sitting off frame to the right with a somewhat mischievous smile on his face.
December 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos
2025
#film #movies #cinema #movie #USA #remake
> Slick look flick with good to excellent performances (Plemons shines). Uneven rhythm. Also, obvious, sophomoric, superficial, and misanthropic. Yawn.
An extreme close up of a woman wearing and eye mask. She's lying down in the dark. Some light shines on her nose.
December 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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"[The present] will not escape from the will, but neither will the will escape from it. If, therefore, life as it is satisfies, whoever affirms it in every way may regard it with confidence as endless, and banish the fear of death as an illusion that inspires him with the foolish dread that he […]
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November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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"slop invites a kind of nihilism into all aspects of our life. (...) Its infrastructure of meaninglessness makes the very act of creating something of meaning almost irrelevant."

#slop #ai
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/ai-slop-winning/684630/
October 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Etude No. 2
Composer: Philip Glass
Pianist: Vanessa Wagner
#music #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #philipglass #vanessawagner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0zt7tZYSE
September 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Forty Guns
Samuel Fuller
1957
#film #movies #cinema #movie #USA
> Some say that a film can work with a single brilliant scene. Forty Guns has four (!): the opening sequence; the tornado scene (with Stanwyck doing her own stunts); a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming long […]

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An extreme, black and white, low angle shot looking up at a cowboy staring at something out of frame, slightly to his right. Above and behind him rises a wooden building out of which window, unbeknownst to the man, a gun barrel sticks out.
September 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The Ox-Bow Incident
William A. Wellman
1943
#film #movies #cinema #movie #USA #lynching
> A perfect film from beginning to end. All of it in 75 minutes. Fantastic script, direction, and ensemble cast. Gripping, sobering, gut wrenching. A flat-out masterpiece.
A black and white medium profile shot of two cowboys. The man in the foreground is looking frame left, blankly, as if listening to his companion. The bottom part of his face is framed out. The other taller man, standing behind the first, is looking frame right, down slightly, as if reading perhaps. Both of this eyes are hidden by part of the first man's hat.
September 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Ciao! Manhattan
John Palmer & David Weisman
1972
#film #movies #cinema #movie #USA
> A grim, voyeuristic, exploitative disaster with no redeeming artistic qualities.
Lying on a large bright red and bright yellow pillow, a plunging medium shot of a pretty young brunette in a red turtle neck. With her right arm folded above her head, the young woman is looking up blankly towards the ceiling. A large cross hangs from her neck.
July 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Ahed's Knee
Nadav Lapid
2021
#film #movies #cinema #movie #israel #filmmaking
> Intense, visceral, fearless, life and death filmmaking of the highest order. Thematically dense and layered, served by mesmerizing performances. An acerbic, furious, yet in the […]

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Overlooking a rocky, desert-like, out of focus landscape extending in the day’s waning light, a medium shot of a middle aged, gray haired man and a young dark haired woman. The man's holding the woman by the shoulders as if his life depended on it, looking up at her from chest level, pleading-like. The woman, wearing a flowery dress under a heavy puff jacket, is looking straight ahead, tears running down her distraught face.
July 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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The Case for Kicking the Stone
Philip Ball
LARB - Dec 6, 2021

A review of Nicholas Carr’s Superbloom.
The text says : "We can’t change or constrain the tech, says Carr, but we can change ourselves. We can choose to reject the hyperreal for the material. We can follow Samuel Johnson’s refutation of immaterialism by “kicking the stone,” reminding ourselves of what is real. It is an inspiring rallying call, and Superbloom shows us what is at stake—but with market forces, peer pressure, and our own instincts ranged against us, this might be easier said than done. As Richard Powers wrote in his 1998 novel Gain: 'People want everything. That’s their problem.'”
July 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Fascinating Fascism
Susan Sontag
New York Review of Books
February 6, 1975
https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/classes/33d/33dTexts/SontagFascinFascism75.htm
#fascism #trump #USA #prison #ice #us
The screen captures reads: [Fascist aesthetics] "flow from (and justify) a preoccupation with situations of control, submissive behavior, extravagant effort, and the endurance of pain; they endorse two seemingly opposite states, egomania and servitude. The relations of domination and enslavement take the form of a characteristic pageantry: the massing of groups of people; the turning of people into things; the multiplication or replication of things; and the grouping of people/things around an all-powerful, hypnotic leader-figure or force. The fascist dramaturgy centers on the orgiastic transactions between mighty forces and their puppets, uniformly garbed and shown in ever swelling numbers. Its choreography alternates between ceaseless motion and a congealed, static, "virile" posing. Fascist art glorifies surrender, it exalts mindlessness, it glamorizes death."
July 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The Kingdom
Julien Colonna
2024
#film #movies #cinema #movie #france #Corsica
> A coming of age Corsican organized crime story. Direction is heavy handed and didactic. Lovely performances by mostly Corsican actors. Script is weak: a juvenile vengeance power […]

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A medium golden hour shot of a teenage girl having a dark haired man, seen from being, cut her wet bleached hair with a pair of scissors. The girl is looking at the man from the corner of her wide eyes, her facial expression placid. Behind her, quite blurry, a sea and mountain landscape extends in the distance.
June 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Desert Fury
Lewis Allen
1947
#film #movies #cinema #movie #us #filmnoir #melodrama
> Not a film noir, although it's shot like one. Not a thriller, although bullets end up flying and people end up dying. But a bona fide gay melodrama from 1947. Great […]

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Wide shot of a woman under the covers of her bed, lying down. Though the room's single oval, draped window, the blue light of a lightning bolt shines through, illuminating the room and the woman.
June 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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On the occasion of the death of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre.
by Raymond Geuss

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/storyteller
A screen capture of an article by Raymond Geuss written on the occasion of the death of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. The captured text reads: "Luxemburg and Trotsky have the final word after all: We have chosen barbarism, and ‘there is no tolerable alternative set of political and economic institutions which could be brought into place to replace the structures of advanced capitalism’.
June 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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There is no Evil
Mohammad Rasoulof
2020
#film #movies #cinema #movie #iran
> A superb cast, some expert photography and editing, and Rasoulof’s spare and confident mise en scene. One might regret some music choices and their timing, but the four short films […]

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Medium shot of a 20 something, dark haired man lying down on the ground in the outdoors. The man's looking up frame left, calm yet questioning, at a woman who only has her hands in frame. Red and pinkish pomegranate seeds have been placed on the man's face, presumably by the woman. One under each of his eyes, and seven on his forehead in a simple pattern.
May 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence
May 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Sin
Andrei Konchalovsky
2019
#film #movies #cinema #movie #italia #Russia
> Michelangelo at his most manic and paranoid thanks to an excellent Alberto Testone and Konchalovsky's energetic albeit academic mise en scene. Sadly the director never manages to give […]

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Medium color shot of a bearded middle aged man sitting in front of a rocky surface looking up, seemingly to the sky, with a half smile on his face and tears in his eyes. The man looks ragged and his wearing a dark jacket over a dirty light Renaissance era grey shirt.
May 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Evil Does Not Exist
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2023
#film #movies #cinema #movie #japanese
> Unsettling film that, in the end comes a bit short. Excellent casting, mixing amateurs and pros (with a stand out performance by real-life driver Hitoshi Omika). Great music […]

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Wide shot of a Japanese couple sitting at a table in a restaurant. They are facing us, the viewer. The 40-something man, wearing a dark purple cardigan over a light blue shirt is sitting on the right side of the frame. His mouth is slightly ajar and his elbows are up, as if propped on his waist off frame. The 30-something woman, in a white woolly top, is on the left, looking at us somewhat sideways with a slight frown on her forehead. In front of the couple, two large empty bowls have been laid out.
April 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM