February 2012
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tumblrbot asked: ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?
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Spirited Away
Spirited Away is not a kid’s movie. It is a film about leaving childhood behind. Similarly, it is not strictly limited to the tropes of shōjo, such as those observed inNakayoshi or Ribon, but rather, as Susan Napier suggests, “is an explicit critique of the consumerist lifestyle that created the shōjo phenomenon” (Anime 180). The character of Chihiro, in fact, was inspired by the ten-year-old...
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“Nothing happens that is ever forgotten, even if you can’t remember it.”
– Zeniba from Spirited Away
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January 2012
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
“If the dolls also had voices, they would have screamed, ‘I don’t want to become human.’” ~ Major Motoko Kusanagi
Cinematically, Ghost in the Shell 2 utilizes a much more traditional cyber-punk style that its predecessor. Though both are undoubtedly influenced by the staples of film noir, Innocence clearly occupies a much more threatening world, a nihilistic hell populated by a society...
“Cinema not only puts movement in the image, it also puts movement in the...”
– Gilles Deleuze
December 2011
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The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick’s first directorial effort in six years, The Tree of Life, was one of 2011’s most critically-anticipated films, and also undoubtedly the most polarizing and frustrating piece of cinema since, perhaps, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The comparison between these two pictures is by no means an original observation. Parallels have been drawn between the two since...
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November 2011
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“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.”
– Ingmar Bergman
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The Greatest Films of All Time →
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1
I admit that in my own snarky, unaffectionate way I’ve really enjoyed the Twilight series of movies up until this point. It was escapist fantasy, and I kind of loved being able to interject myself into the whimsical simplicity of a fairy tale, to forget the real world and any complexity that may exist in it. There was no profundity, ambiguity or interpretation necessary, and thinking does...
“Photography is truth… and cinema is truth 24 times a second.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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