Word: aestheticize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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A viewer of Raging Bull does not need to know the first thing about Jake LaMotta the real man, nor even the first thing about boxing, for the film achieves its greatness through its aesthetic brilliance and through its touching metadiscourse on the sturm und drang of the human soul...
The rarest (though unequivocally the most rewarding) brand of biographical film treats the truly unbelievable story, the preternatural case history, the real life epic that, without artistic interpretation or cinematic doctoring, reads like a full-blown Hollywood screenplay. Steven Soderberg’s 2000 Oscar-award-winning Erin Brockovich tells...
Jill Anderson's offering, "Super Boring," is almost comically self-indicting. This too features ample negative space and a precious few broad stroke of black paint that take the form of a penguin and a personified rectangle. The image as a whole is tragically unimaginative and isn't at all...
Murray’s new compilation can only strengthen his already illustrious record. He injects a part of himself into everything he puts down on paper. His critique of social norms, world politics and past events is intriguing to view from his unique perspective, which is influenced by a life...
But this valuation of the visual over the literary is more than just an aesthetic philosophy, but rather also reflects Ristelhueber's philosophy of history. Ristelheuber seems to have a radically descriptive and almost impartial outlook on the horror that characterizes human conflict. That is not to say that Ristelhueber...