Films since a while ago.

I'm hoping to investigate a few of these with more detail but I also realize that it has been so long since the viewings that a lot of the subtleties will have been lost. Therefore a list of films through December into today, reductive as they may be.



An Education: Education as the tautological path away from the traditional family, even after the facade of and traditional family economy has been bankrupted.



Coco Before Chanel: work > love > social standards.



The Fantastic Mr. Fox: Individualism as the savior of the collective standard of living, in resistance of course to capital accumulation/hoarding?



Avatar = Pocahontas + Matrix + Ferngully + Dances With Wolves + Aliens + 3D. Also the indecision of science fiction and fantasy.



Nine: When film is meta it is meta about film, when Broadway inserts music and tries to be meta about film in a film about the constraints of the stage and how film isn't subject to those limitations we get Nine. But the sexy dancing obviously makes this marketable to a male demographic right? Let's not talk about Fellini, either.


(rented/home view)
Manufactured Landscapes: capitalist porn.
Eraserhead: Lynch, in black and white.