Category: Aesthetics
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The Picturesque Meltdown
It is picturesque but less thoughtful then it appears. There is nothing profound about natural postcards when you don’t have a clear high concept to play with; No nature philosophy, nor deep connection between characters and surroundings. When every frame is just trying to aestheticize its lack of subject matter as a painting, the story is…
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Cinema is Dead/ Cinema is Alive!
In 2010 I have wrote that “this is an honest tribute to the rare beauty of the documentaries of late Italian Maestro of Neorealism Vittorio DeSeta and his magnificent Sicilian short doc Pasqua Di Sicilia. Though he sets his movies in Calabria, Michelangelo Feramartino`s second movie is defining some new extremes for imaginative realism…Mediating on…
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Time Is The Enemy- On Sam Mendes’ “1917”
“Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.” Giving credits to Director Sam Mendes or Cinematographer Roger Deakins (as did by late author theorists) is easy when it comes to a masterpiece like 1917, but when you feel in your gut that something is missing or it’s just…
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Unvisited Tombs – On Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life”
“… for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
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“The Awful Truth” : Is there an alternative to IP-Driven blockbusters in Superheroes Era?
The answer is Yes! And it is neither Netflix, nor Horrors! The utter success of Marvel Cinematic Universe somehow managed to summon the wrath of gods of film upon itself. Martin Scorsese called these movies “Not Cinema” and closest experience to “Theme Parks”, Coppola called them “Despicable”, even inherently silent enemies like Ken Loach showed their…
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Take the red pill – On “Legion”
It is really hard for me to say something nice about TV shows. I literally cannot bear the sight of many of them; From GOT to Walking Dead to Modern Family to Breaking Bad they make me sick to my stomach. You might think that it is one of those snobbish reactions, but to your disappointment I…
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Conversations: Journal of Cavellian Studies
My Essay on Stanley Cavell and Terrence Malick in “Conversations: Journal of Cavellian Studies” Abstract: The question of the relation between Film and philosophy has been at the center of many intellectual debates since the foundation of cinema. It has been paraphrased and articulated in many disciplines such as Philosophy of Film, Film-Philosophy, Philosophy of…
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Our Joy – On “Félicité” by Alain Gomis
The surprise of 67th Berlinale, Alain Gomis breath-taking portrayal of a mother trying to save her son is an amazing meditation into a city (say, a country) into demise without any moral/social cornerstone. Felicite is mesmerizingly beautiful, breathtakingly painful, and deliberately dreamy. Stylistically enough, those fantasy interludes with classical ensemble brings such a ingenious insight…
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The Curious Case of Istanbul! – On “Murder on the Orient Express” by Kenneth Branagh
The problem with the remakes is not much different from the problem of the adaptations. Hence, when you see a remake of a beloved movie like Murder on the Orient Express with that glamorous cast and dashingly beautiful direction of Sidney Lumet, you are hoping something more has motivated the persons behind it, or maybe…
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That`s Entertainment – On “Dunkirk” by Christopher Nolan
It is not easy to believe what happened in Dunkirk, it has a caliber that is somehow larger than life. But you can be certain of one thing, after you saw the movie “Dunkirk” on screen, whatever you saw is going to engrave in your mind as the fact, not fiction. Cinema as Suspended Disbelief…