Very Long Baseline Interferometryon Seeing Through Kiarostami’s Olive TreesAs always with the generous cinema of Kiarostami, what one is seeing comes down to what one has already seen. This premise takes on…Apr 15, 2021Apr 15, 2021
Very Long Baseline InterferometryOn the Failed Provocations of Cruel Intentions (Kumble, 1999)A genuinely terrible movie, intermittently successful as an extremely blunt satire, but ultimately the sort of terrible movie that…Jan 19, 2021Jan 19, 2021
Very Long Baseline InterferometryTrue Romantics and the Fantasy of Reality: on Breathless (McBride, 1983)Gere’s gangster, all comic books, rock n’ roll, and pelvic thrust, a fugitive from the fantasy that is the world, because only he can see…Jan 14, 2021Jan 14, 2021
Very Long Baseline InterferometryOn MINISTRY OF FEAR (Lang, 1944)A good film throughout until Milland and a thrillingly impenetrable, stone-faced, Percy Waram revisit the bomb crater from the beginning…Jan 10, 2021Jan 10, 2021