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...Whale's wistful memories of "love in the foxholes," are masterfully done. Alas, these all have the ulterior motive of emphasizing the film's already overweighted point: that gods are monsters, monsters are gods, and filmmaking, war and homosexuality are really, in the end, the same thing. As pure cinema, however, stripped of their obligation to make an argument, these scenes are nearly perfect...
...movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Say Anything. The gimmick here is that all the bands are comprised of teenagers, representing the sway these movies hold on today's adolescents. Considering the band members represent a generation that wasn't even old enough to go to the cinema without their parents when these movies came out, this may seem odd--but then, perhaps because they weren't actual teens, they were able to take the often mushy emotions in both the movies and their accompanying soundtracks at face value...
Appreciating the Weimar exhibition in this historical context is essential. In fact, The Laboratory of Modernity exhibition was actually organized to complement Eric Rentschler's Weimar Cinema class (German 155). The works themselves are usually not beautiful. Karl Hubbuch's drypoint, profile portrait of The Schaefer Sisters shows the ugly sister fastening a necklace around her prettier sister's neck. The sisters are ably sketched, but their averted gaze, their isolation on otherwise white paper, and the blunt utility of Hubbuch's composition combine to give the viewer a queer sense of detachment, which prevents wholehearted admiration while simultaneously intensifying...
...first half hour or so, A Bug's Life is so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet. The filmmakers encourage you to wander through the glamorous terrain of their imaginations as if the picture were a product reel for 21st century cinema...
...settle in for a weekend of en memoriam turkey sandwiches, go ironic with Eraserhead (1976). Arm-stabbing, elevator humor and the best hair in independent cinema, all birthed, fully formed in black-and-white, from David Lynch?s devilish little brain. Some scenes inappropriate for young carnivores...