Cass Milne
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I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion.
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R.I.P to Bob Weir, one of the most unusual rhythm guitarists in rock. I saw him once do an excellent version of the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows with the back up of Wilco in Nashville, and I owe him something because my Dead Head parents named me after one of his songs.
January 11, 2026 at 12:04 AM
R.I.P to Bob Weir, one of the most unusual rhythm guitarists in rock. I saw him once do an excellent version of the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows with the back up of Wilco in Nashville, and I owe him something because my Dead Head parents named me after one of his songs.
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I laud Kurosawa's stunning blocking and spacing, while exploring how he viewed hatred, resentment, and inner emptiness as their own forms of poverty. I also make connections to Fritz Lang's M and Bong Joon Ho and David Fincher's modern procedurals.
I laud Kurosawa's stunning blocking and spacing, while exploring how he viewed hatred, resentment, and inner emptiness as their own forms of poverty. I also make connections to Fritz Lang's M and Bong Joon Ho and David Fincher's modern procedurals.
A ★★★★★ review of High and Low (1963)
Akira Kurosawa’s place in the cannon is so secure that it is easy to take him for granted. He is best remembered for samurai epics set in Japan’s feudal past but High and Low is a skillfully made adap...
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January 10, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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I laud Kurosawa's stunning blocking and spacing, while exploring how he viewed hatred, resentment, and inner emptiness as their own forms of poverty. I also make connections to Fritz Lang's M and Bong Joon Ho and David Fincher's modern procedurals.
I laud Kurosawa's stunning blocking and spacing, while exploring how he viewed hatred, resentment, and inner emptiness as their own forms of poverty. I also make connections to Fritz Lang's M and Bong Joon Ho and David Fincher's modern procedurals.
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i was the only home whose cable didn’t go out when the sopranos finale aired and it showed tony looking up and seeing two guys walk into the restaurant holding hands. then it cut back to tony shrugging, which you have to understand in 2007 was a very powerful statement
January 6, 2026 at 11:10 PM
i was the only home whose cable didn’t go out when the sopranos finale aired and it showed tony looking up and seeing two guys walk into the restaurant holding hands. then it cut back to tony shrugging, which you have to understand in 2007 was a very powerful statement
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he looks like a faded guy from an 80s punk band getting upset at Zorak
Just the BBC, the national broadcaster, mainstreaming a fascist blogger. I guess this is normal now.
January 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
he looks like a faded guy from an 80s punk band getting upset at Zorak
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all time great email reply, rip
January 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
all time great email reply, rip
I explore Miyazaki's quietly subversive world without heroes and villains, and laud the translucent ardor of his water color palette.
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A ★★★★★ review of My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
My Neighbor Totoro is quietly subversive for the way it depicts a world without villains or the strains of violence typically found in both Western and Japanese animation. Hayao Miyazaki eschews formu...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:26 PM
I explore Miyazaki's quietly subversive world without heroes and villains, and laud the translucent ardor of his water color palette.
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R.I.P Béla Tarr (21 July 1955 – 6 January 2026)
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A ★★★★★ review of Satantango (1994)
With the possible exception of Roy Andersson's The Living trilogy, no directors oeuvre feels more like the end of the world than the work of Bela Tarr. Satantango is essentially a cathedral to moral d...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
R.I.P Béla Tarr (21 July 1955 – 6 January 2026)
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I engage with Bergman's themes of fractured identity and dream logic while connecting its influence to Lynch's Mulholland Drive and Altman's Three Women.
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A ★★★★★ review of Persona (1966)
In the absence of meaning we wrestle with identity, but what if there is no self? Perhaps our personas are mental projections made up of our hopes and fears. The idea of a fractured self sounds schizo...
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January 4, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I engage with Bergman's themes of fractured identity and dream logic while connecting its influence to Lynch's Mulholland Drive and Altman's Three Women.
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It remains one of the wildest things in the world that Disney paid late-career Hunter S. Thompson to write despairing columns about the sickening depravity of American empire and, to a slightly lesser extent, Skip Prosser's Wake Forest. www.espn.com/page2/s/thom...
June 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It remains one of the wildest things in the world that Disney paid late-career Hunter S. Thompson to write despairing columns about the sickening depravity of American empire and, to a slightly lesser extent, Skip Prosser's Wake Forest. www.espn.com/page2/s/thom...
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smoking marijuana and reading my manga in this ball
Sun Ball, designed by Ferdinand Ris in the 1960s
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 PM
smoking marijuana and reading my manga in this ball
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I recommend people watch WALKER by Alex Cox. Forgive the trailer, they had to market it somehow, but it’s a minor miracle that Universal Pictures even theatrically released such a strong indictment of US foreign policy in Latin America at all. It’s on Internet Archive
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Official Trailer - WALKER (1987, Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Marlee Matlin, Alex Cox)
YouTube video by Trailer World
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January 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I recommend people watch WALKER by Alex Cox. Forgive the trailer, they had to market it somehow, but it’s a minor miracle that Universal Pictures even theatrically released such a strong indictment of US foreign policy in Latin America at all. It’s on Internet Archive
youtu.be/XImi7fT7-J0
youtu.be/XImi7fT7-J0
A character study of people living on the edge that becomes a deglamorized crime film--call it Bonnie and Clyde by way of Bresson. The line three hamburgers no garbage on them is worth the price of admission alone.
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A ★★★★★ review of Wanda (1970)
The line three hamburgers no garbage on them is worth the price of admission alone. Director Barbara Loden's Wanda challenges our assumptions of what type of people can be the subject of the stories w...
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January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
A character study of people living on the edge that becomes a deglamorized crime film--call it Bonnie and Clyde by way of Bresson. The line three hamburgers no garbage on them is worth the price of admission alone.
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I engage with the themes of elemental nature, transience, and the importance of humanism and mercy in Kenji Mizoguchi's painterly Sansho the Bailiff.
I engage with the themes of elemental nature, transience, and the importance of humanism and mercy in Kenji Mizoguchi's painterly Sansho the Bailiff.
A ★★★★★ review of Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Perhaps the greatest film of all time, but too heart wrenching to watch regularly. In Sansho the Bailiff humanist ideals are challenged by a cruel world. Brutal practices such as slavery and having on...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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I engage with the themes of elemental nature, transience, and the importance of humanism and mercy in Kenji Mizoguchi's painterly Sansho the Bailiff.
I engage with the themes of elemental nature, transience, and the importance of humanism and mercy in Kenji Mizoguchi's painterly Sansho the Bailiff.
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I dissect Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, and give nods to its psychological understanding of Fascism, the alienating nature of Mussolini's architecture, and praise the sophisticated cinematography that would influence the Godfather films.
I dissect Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, and give nods to its psychological understanding of Fascism, the alienating nature of Mussolini's architecture, and praise the sophisticated cinematography that would influence the Godfather films.
A ★★★★★ review of The Conformist (1970)
Young director Bernardo Bertolucci's time as a disciple of Pier Pasolini and Sergio Leone, along with Italian cinema's openness to experimentation certainly aided his ability to create this highly sty...
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December 31, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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I dissect Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, and give nods to its psychological understanding of Fascism, the alienating nature of Mussolini's architecture, and praise the sophisticated cinematography that would influence the Godfather films.
I dissect Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, and give nods to its psychological understanding of Fascism, the alienating nature of Mussolini's architecture, and praise the sophisticated cinematography that would influence the Godfather films.
