it is possible for this movie to not be as good as the immense hype claimed and also that it reinvents the cinema of the spectacle and reinvigorated my zest for life
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Kino-Pravda No. 1 1922
I wrote about Dziga Vertov's experimental newsreel, which stretched the bounds of what a documentary could be and hoped to forge a new cinematic future that never came to pass, for my new Substack about obscure film.
burntnitrate.substack.com/p/kino-pravda-and-seeing-the-unseen
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
A film fueled by hatred, anger, and contempt for its own rabid fanbase, and better for it. Takes the corporate-driven concepts that have taken over franchises like meta elements, IP, and unearned fan service and pushes them to comical extremes as a means of criticism and rage against everyone who twisted Wachowski's ideas and imagery to their own ends, whether banal or actively harmful. A deeming of the calls for resurrection of dead characters as an act of cruelty against…
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