@maddiewhittle Personally, I’d argue that what we’ve seen in the last year re the close relationships between various senior members of the Trump administration and various online alt-right influencers and neo-fascist weirdos makes the Christmas Adventurers sub-plot seem remarkably prescient.
@maddiewhittle The film is very clearly expressing a political perspective: that fascism and racial hatred in America can be found lurking in fringe sub-cultures and also on full view in the militarised apparatus of the state - and that in the post-MAGA US both spheres are closely interrelated
Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world. From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. May his memory be a blessing.
RIP Frederick Wiseman. I used to go through TITICUT FOLLIES shot by shot with journalism students to show how documentary style can fuse objectivity and rhetoric; looking forward to reading /re-reading great pieces on an actually great filmmaker.
In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life
Yep. Brits were going to pay billions for a deal tailored to Washington’s interests.
And Trump still blew it up.
As a wise man put it: our prosperity and security can’t depend on voters in Wisconsin every 4 years.
Trumpism doesn't even make sense on its own terms. If you want to compete with China as a cynical power-mad 'civilizational state', then you don't do that by proving a totally fickle and treacherous 'ally' whom no-one can trust from one moment to the next. China doesn't do so
I think people on here really, really want One Battle After Another to be this didactic agitprop that's more of a political pamphlet than a thorny, contradictory work of art.
@brofromanother On some level, you've got to love and admire the fact that Cameron's career has been one long effort to realise onscreen every goofy idea he ever had whilst stoned in college.
@hering_david Great movie. Apparently it had a budget of 25 million dollars, which is crazy for a film of this type in 1985. All that money is onscreen though.