It’s tempting to watch Blue now and view it first and foremost as Jarman's swan song, the grace note he left us with, etc. Time has allowed a work like this to become something canonized, stately, funereal. 

but Blue also contains so much of Jarman’s insolence, as confronting as it is elegiac (“We would wish our lives to be recorded in an oratorio by Beethoven or Mozart, not in the auction sale of a Keith Haring tea towel.") The simulcast…

I assumed Final Destination’s premise would feel more potent in the age of clear air turbulence, but its "one in a million" freak accident ideation almost comes off as quaint today. Death is still all around us, but in more blunt, direct ways. Butterflies don’t need to flap their wings to cause chain reaction highway accidents; cars are just built to crash now. Airplanes fall out of the sky because they’re built that way too, a gambling app controls the…

Most of the criticism of Malm’s original book was that he was asking why the climate movement doesn’t currently have an appetite for ecoterrorism, while glossing over the decades of increased policing of North American activist movements leading up to our present moment. I read it while I was still facing criminal charges related to the type of action he’s advocating for (charges got dropped 😎🚞❌🛤❌😎 fwiw) and feeling annoyed by him describing the problem as a lack of…

Certainly plenty to ire, but this is still the sort of director that plays archival news audio explaining what heroin is over a jazz bender montage. Or basically names a character “Harrison T. USA President”

"Critical of capitalism,” but avoids the specifics of how capital actually functions alongside liberalism, fascism, philanthropy, the culture sector, etc. for instance, this would have been potent material for an exploration of the ways politically volatile ideas and identities get co-opted — instead, Corbett mostly…