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In Cremaster, Barney has woven the most intricate narrative from a post-modern melange of contemporary and ancient, obvious and opaque, brutal and divine symbols.
Unlike other comedian cum documentarians like Michael Moore or Bill Maher, Chris Rock doesn’t take a hard-nosed political stance, or use the format to ‘out’ and humiliate in order to prove his point. His latest film Good Hair, about African-American culture’s obsession with straight hair, is all the more enjoyable because it takes the subjective experiences of real people so much into account in its narrative.
Crazy Heart (which won its lead actor Jeff Bridges an Oscar just recently) gets pretty much everything wrong, including a falsely optimistic ending, offering its audience nothing but cheap humanism.
Remember the first time you saw the now ubiquitous (and roundly loathed) iPod ad?
Remember how sharp, how snapped together the image and sound seemed, how simple and obvious, and yet totally new and now it was? The irony being that the building blocks which enabled motion graphics designers to put that together on their iMacs in the noughties, were first laid over 70 years ago by a New Zealand film maker working on an ad for the British Post Office.
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