Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk SSG Dimes
I viewed Ang Lee's 'so-so' film last night.........scenes, such as this one, and...of course....the big Production Number @ 'Halftime'.....[which didn't appear on YouTube, for whatever reasons].....caused me to re-interpret the 'NEWS' as I later watched the war scenarios that permeate and have always permeated the "NEWS".....The Ritualization of Mankind's endless struggle, through countless Wars......for "Peace".....send a few million teenaged boys, after brainwashing them, to insure the timeless Institutional War.....
I just 
watched "M", that I'd not seen in many years......the exquisite new prints of the film, with cleaned-up audio, certainly arrested my attentions......I thought of 'NOW'......as the Establishment becomes fixated on outing specific 'evil' surrogates, drawing attention to the pervasiveness of the criminality that pervades Society, in general, ritual sacrifices must appease the Hoi Polloi and negate its deep-seated guilt....... Die Neue Sachlichkeit's 'realism', expressed in circles, squares, arrows and lines......Criminals are just exaggerations of Everyman's latent intentionality.......Justice is the moral atonement of the righteous......I thought of the saga of Charles Manson...I thought of Trumpworld.....about compulsion and intent......The 'frame' from the movie, that persists in my memory, is the scene in which a book store's street window display is of a massive display of cutlery, flatware and folding knives, moving to a bookstore window in which a spinning hypnosis wheel and a moving, downward-pointing arrow draw the viewers' attention to, then away from the books......
watched "M", that I'd not seen in many years......the exquisite new prints of the film, with cleaned-up audio, certainly arrested my attentions......I thought of 'NOW'......as the Establishment becomes fixated on outing specific 'evil' surrogates, drawing attention to the pervasiveness of the criminality that pervades Society, in general, ritual sacrifices must appease the Hoi Polloi and negate its deep-seated guilt....... Die Neue Sachlichkeit's 'realism', expressed in circles, squares, arrows and lines......Criminals are just exaggerations of Everyman's latent intentionality.......Justice is the moral atonement of the righteous......I thought of the saga of Charles Manson...I thought of Trumpworld.....about compulsion and intent......The 'frame' from the movie, that persists in my memory, is the scene in which a book store's street window display is of a massive display of cutlery, flatware and folding knives, moving to a bookstore window in which a spinning hypnosis wheel and a moving, downward-pointing arrow draw the viewers' attention to, then away from the books......
Saturday, November 4, 2017
out of Nowhere, Swedish actor, Martin Wallström, after a string of artsy Swedish movies, hit the World's TV screens as MR. ROBOT's Tyrell Wellick....with little evidence of his Nordic lineage.....He's the new ambiguous Liv Ullman manchild.....and that's no skammen....to Rami Malek's schizoid convolutions....don't try to count the interpositing scan lines, folks.....it's all Hi-Def!
Sunday, April 30, 2017
- Psychoanalytical films from the early 1960's seem to abound recently on TV and YouTube...... I just watched the Joan Crawford vehicle, AUTUMN LEAVES, that launched Cliff Robertson to stardom......and SHOCK CORRIDOR, in which a writer does research in a mental hospital.....Slews of head-shrinking films hit the screens on the heels of DAVID AND LISA and LILITH and SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER.......motivating me, still in my teens, to aspire to be a Psychiatrist, after my subsequent reading of Freud's INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS.......
