I like Scorsese but why is everyone talking about him like he's Ingmar Bergman... he's a very competent filmmaker but not singular and clearly not infallible
sorry, no. we live in an era of slop and the slop is winning. contrarian poptimism is corny. oooh, look at me, i let people enjoy things🤪🙄good god, have some self respect.
The claim that Vol III “destroyed” Vol I is not a critique of Marx. It is a confession that the critic has not understood the object of Marx’s theory. Marx never said individual market prices equal individual labour-values. He explicitly denied that. Here we go again… 🧵
Profit is also not “theft.” Marx’s point is stronger. Exchange can be legally equal: worker sells labour-power, capitalist buys it, wages are paid. Exploitation occurs not because exchange is unequal, but because labour-power creates more value than it costs.
what's super humiliating is that the old ways of "finding oneself" such as spirituality, art, philosophy, meditation, psychoanalysis, etc still work really well. and yet we dig in the garbage of pop-psych like dogs
I don't think I have any first-watches last month. Maybe John Ford's The Searchers, but I haven't finished it yet but I think it's good.
All I ever did was rewatch films last month (Audition, Lords of Salem, etc).
Token Analytical Marxist will be surprised how much of the best works of Celso Ad Castillo and Lav Diaz were made with scripts written on the day of the shoot without the conventional "coherence" demanded by Hollywood.
It's not transcendentally awesome, but I do understand its acclaim considering the time when it was released. Early 2000s really was the breakthrough for most Asian cinema and Oldboy was there to help boost it.
Was its script "stupid"? Possibly, but it produced good filmmaking
One of the greatest movie of all time, Johnnie To's The Mission, produced in 1999 without a ready-made script and just outline of situations devised each shooting day and it was so great. Time to shift our understanding of mainstream cinema outside of the script.
found it weird that there really are portions of western cinephilia that dunk on Wes Anderson for... consistently following a certain style, like a western idea of an artist is, but they never do that for David Lynch (who was more consistent, but less prolific).
i got curious and googled “is there critical theory about perfumes?” not only is there, but i have now learned the phrase “regimes of deodorization.” hell yeah dude
David Lynch is more of the quirkmonger than any of you will think of haha. Especially on the debate over style over substance, Lynch is already lost. But to pin Anderson on the same issue requires better reflection.