jorge
@franziafanon.bsky.social
film & tv criticism in The Nation and LARB
nba / miami heat fan
chicago resident
nba / miami heat fan
chicago resident
March 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by jorge
The workplace nightmares of Severance not only dramatizes our alienation from labor but how capitalism alienates us from ourselves.
The Workplace Nightmares of “Severance”
The appeal of the Apple TV+ series is how it dramatizes our alienation from labor.
www.thenation.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The workplace nightmares of Severance not only dramatizes our alienation from labor but how capitalism alienates us from ourselves.
Very excited that this cluster is out in the world. 🙏🏼
For Jorge Cotte, "if the close-up is the show’s language for emotional truth, then the wide shot is a more distant witnessing." In The Leftovers, "representation is rooted in compensation for loss, and it gains its power from that loss"
post45.org/2024/12/on-t...
post45.org/2024/12/on-t...
On the Other Side of the Screen - Post45
“I saw you on my TV. You were looking right at me.” — “G’Day Melbourne,” The Leftovers, season 2, episode 4. Halfway through the second season of The Leftovers, Kevin drinks poison and dies. He falls ...
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January 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Very excited that this cluster is out in the world. 🙏🏼
I did review Alfonso Cuaron's television show -- a show that wants to be a soapy thriller but gets bogged down in voiceover and didacticism.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Empty Thrills of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Disclaimer”
Why did the great Mexican filmmaker make a soapy thriller?
www.thenation.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:06 PM
I did review Alfonso Cuaron's television show -- a show that wants to be a soapy thriller but gets bogged down in voiceover and didacticism.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Reposted by jorge
I find it so funny when people are like, “I like Lin-Manuel Miranda, I just wish he weren’t so corny.” Like, what do you think the #1 requirement for a composer of musical theatre is.
November 28, 2024 at 2:53 PM
I find it so funny when people are like, “I like Lin-Manuel Miranda, I just wish he weren’t so corny.” Like, what do you think the #1 requirement for a composer of musical theatre is.
I watched Gladiator II last night.
The good: Ridley Scott can still direct the hell out of an action sequence -- all the gladiator battles are sick. Denzel is indeed as much fun as everyone is saying.
The bad: The storytelling does not seem to have advanced in 24 years. Everything is shorthand.
The good: Ridley Scott can still direct the hell out of an action sequence -- all the gladiator battles are sick. Denzel is indeed as much fun as everyone is saying.
The bad: The storytelling does not seem to have advanced in 24 years. Everything is shorthand.
November 19, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I watched Gladiator II last night.
The good: Ridley Scott can still direct the hell out of an action sequence -- all the gladiator battles are sick. Denzel is indeed as much fun as everyone is saying.
The bad: The storytelling does not seem to have advanced in 24 years. Everything is shorthand.
The good: Ridley Scott can still direct the hell out of an action sequence -- all the gladiator battles are sick. Denzel is indeed as much fun as everyone is saying.
The bad: The storytelling does not seem to have advanced in 24 years. Everything is shorthand.
Time to check in on my little friends at Meerkat Manor
November 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Time to check in on my little friends at Meerkat Manor
Having finally caught up with industry (devastated)... what tv show should i start?
November 13, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Having finally caught up with industry (devastated)... what tv show should i start?
Best of the 2020s so far:
November 12, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Best of the 2020s so far:
What's going on over here?
November 9, 2024 at 10:42 PM
What's going on over here?
Is Dune about The Chosen One, or a critique of chosen one narratives?
I wrote about how the movie's built-in ambivalence doesn't lead to greater complexity, and lets viewers off the hook instead.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
I wrote about how the movie's built-in ambivalence doesn't lead to greater complexity, and lets viewers off the hook instead.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
What’s Missing From “Dune: Part Two”
While Frank Herbert’s original series was about the dangers of messianism, Denis Villeneuve’s rendition wields ambivalence like a secret weapon in its effort to avoid the tough questions.
www.thenation.com
March 8, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Is Dune about The Chosen One, or a critique of chosen one narratives?
I wrote about how the movie's built-in ambivalence doesn't lead to greater complexity, and lets viewers off the hook instead.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
I wrote about how the movie's built-in ambivalence doesn't lead to greater complexity, and lets viewers off the hook instead.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
"Unlike the flat landscape of a traditional western, the horizon in [Killers of the Flower Moon] is not an unbounded space of American freedom. It is hedged in by the upward sprays of oil and the stark verticality of oil rigs."
I reviewed the new Scorsese www.thenation.com/article/cult...
I reviewed the new Scorsese www.thenation.com/article/cult...
October 26, 2023 at 3:06 PM
"Unlike the flat landscape of a traditional western, the horizon in [Killers of the Flower Moon] is not an unbounded space of American freedom. It is hedged in by the upward sprays of oil and the stark verticality of oil rigs."
I reviewed the new Scorsese www.thenation.com/article/cult...
I reviewed the new Scorsese www.thenation.com/article/cult...