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our hitler or hitler: a film from germany
a 7 hour fever dream about fascism.
while there are segments that you might experience as long of pretentious, depending as it always does on your mood at the time, this is still an amazing, unsettling experience. visually staggering, sonically most inventive.
excellent.
not for the weak, though.
7 hours is a committment, even if it is broken into 4 episodes.
it requires some stamina to sit on your couch and do this particular thing.
the case of howard philips lovecraft
apparently at documentary about lovecraft, but really a very cool film about a silhouette that sort of resembled lovecraft, but not really. something about the silohouette messes with you as a viewer--i had to watch this twice of figure out what was going on--the first time, i wasn't really sure somehow.
it's short--45 minutes--and lovely and disturbing and all other things good and lovely.
hypothesis of the stolen painting.
i love raul ruiz.
this is a most excellent raul ruiz film.
closest thing i know of to this is renais' "last year at marienbad" but that's probably because of the look of each: both were shot by sacha vierny.
you get to hang our with this curious collector who tours wants to explain to you the occult significance of a series of paintings my a guy named tonnère and to do that, you get to wander around in tableaux vivants for a while and there is no down side to that, none at all.
you cant figure out what the film "is about" for yourself.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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