I’ve always felt that technology is us. Technology are us. In the 1950s, all the sci-fi stories were about how dehumanizing technology was and how soul-destroying. But in fact, it’s an extension of us. I’m talking to you on the phone, the phone is an extension of my ear and my voice, to that extension …
The now cryogenized Walt Disney, awaiting his resurrection at minus 180 degrees Celsius, conceived and realized a deep-frozen infantile world full of regressive imaginations and phantasms through his movies. Movies that taught especially American society on how to notoriously sugar-coat, and which established an entire unhealthy system of values and ideals, mostly beauty ideals that …
Most of the time, films don’t need extravagant and excessively explicit stories to expose the darkness that constantly surrounds human beings. The deepest mysteries and fissures of society can be unleashed without excessive resources. Sometimes, the right formula can be achieved with a tiny house and a handful of masterfully sculpted characters. These humble scenarios …
Director: Whit Stillman Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Whatever the revisionist rock music critics would have you believe: the Sex Pistols did not take over American youth-culture in late 70s. …
Director: Wim Wenders Paris, Texas (1984) is one of those rare films that captivates from the very first shots, leaving a strange and uneasy feeling that constantly attaches to us. The story is masterfully conceived by German filmmaker Wim Wenders and magnificently photographed by Robby Müller in the desert of Arizona. Ry Cooder‘s acoustic guitar …
Director: Alfonso Cuarón Many directors have portrayed the near or distant future in their films. Some have done it with optimism, others with pessimism, but very few have dared to analyze the social, political and catastrophic repercussions of a collapsed present that is totally devoid of a promising future. Apparently, the Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón …
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Contemporary Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is inclined to create worlds of his own, worlds in which the viewer feels like a complete stranger that gradually interacts with the environment, until a complete and fascinating immersion occurs. In his magnum opus Dogtooth (2009), Lanthimos invited us into a hermetic universe filled with its …
“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.” Krzysztof Kieślowski Some films are completely blissful and ethereal, their souls float through the environment, their images fade between dreamy and fleeting sensations, their substance is destined to overcome the borders of time and space. …
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche For those who write, watching a film by Austrian auteur Michael Haneke requires preparation: sitting down, meditating for a …
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE (opening lines of American Psycho) Every time when somebody mentions the obnoxious Matrix films and babbles something about “taking the red pill“, I fantasize that Patrick Bateman comes along, presses play on “Sussudio“, and then does what he does best. The Matrix films are works of science fiction …
