In a world where video footage as a tool to speak truth to power seems to have lost its efficacy, No Other Land exists more as a form of resistance. As a form of witness. As proof of the Palestinian people's unwavering endurance, and as a document of their very existence.
this is Chazelle's EYES WIDE SHUT
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"A bombastic epic as artistically ambitious as those made during the height of the silent era, writer/director Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" takes the audience on a visceral odyssey through the highest highs and lowest lows of late-1920s Hollywood, from orgiastic parties and chaotic film sets to personal triumphs and melancholic moments of utter despair. As the movie business transitions from silents to talkies, characters like aging matinee idol Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt), wannabe starlet…
I watching this movie on Encore sometime in the 90s one summer with my brother, but I really only ed some of the action pieces. The SLY documentary a few years ago made me want to revisit so when Dad said he wanted to watch a movie tonight and I saw this was on AMC, that seemed perfect (although not great that every commercial break had an ad for cologuard, which was unwelcome given why we’re in the hospital).…
Watching this on TV with Dad (who is asleep) having not seen the previous four films is a bit like that time I watched Three Colors: Red on TCM and didn’t understand the ending because it was actually the third film in the series and the final scene ties them all together. That said, much like Red, this largely works on its own as a standalone film, in this case about the act of healing a family and breaking the curse of generational trauma.
Don’t know yet what I’m going to rate this because I did enjoy it but idk how you do alllll of what this film does and never once show menstrual blood. It still so very much feels like a man’s idea of women’s sexuality and liberation. Still keeps women as objects despite so desperately wanting to show them as the “master of their own ship.” A real conundrum.
This movie doesn’t have anything to say about music. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about artistry. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about relationships. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about marriage. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about parenting. This doesn’t have anything to say about sexuality. This movie doesn’t have anything to say.
