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24 Mar

Fixing the Machine

Fixing the Machine

A continuation of last month’s post on Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil,” which is also part six of a continuing series on man and the machine. The …

 
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03 Jan

Host in the Machine

Host in the Machine

There is such a thing as mental pollution and that is what our children must be protected from at an early age. Adults are able to filter those toxins but not children. I was kept away from violently gruesome films until after my mid-teens. Maybe that’s why I can keep my peace. Perhaps others can’t because they were exposed too early.

 
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12 Dec

What Goes in Must Come Out – The Machine as Man

What Goes in Must Come Out – The Machine as Man

Does the rest of the world comprehend now how random citizens go on killing sprees in my country? The malfunction of the American dream is not part of some twisted conspiracy, but an unfortunate side effect of toxins churned up by our misuse of machines.

 
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29 Nov

Man and the Machine

Man and the Machine

Of course, Dave’s journey is assisted by invisible extraterrestrials, with whom he shares some destiny. We can’t rely on such interventions, at least not yet. That’s where the movies come in.

 
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30 Oct

Nature and the Machine

Nature and the Machine

Whenever we buy a movie ticket, or click to a live stream we’re asking for the truth. The same thing that keeps us from seeing the truth while it’s happening to us is what makes it plane as day when we watch it replayed on screen.

 
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25 Aug

Building a Better Venus – Creating Beauty in Our Own Image

Building a Better Venus – Creating Beauty in Our Own Image

Beauty’s story should be interesting to anyone that feels trapped in a man’s world. This should be interesting to all genders when it addresses anxiety generated within our rigidly enforced hierarchy’s dominant sexual codes, and it should be interesting to all humanity in any way it might articulate our frustration when we are confronted with any of life’s polarizing dilemmas.

 
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06 Jun

Being Venus in a Venus Crazed World

Being Venus in a Venus Crazed World

The filmmaker has gradually imposed on his audience a hip cinematic predicament, but it’s not our camera, so we can’t be blamed. We are only watching.Right?

 
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30 Mar

A movie camera is simply a clock with a lens.

A movie camera is simply a clock with a lens.

Here, a clockmaker turned himself into a ghost and, with the advent of a new kind of mass hypnosis, generated the first special effects blockbuster grosses.

 
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23 Feb

Cooking Up a Surprise

Cooking Up a Surprise

In his 1958 dark comedy, “The Magician” Ingmar Bergman makes comparisons between his experiences as a movie maker, and the adventures of an itinerant magic …

 
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26 Jan

Magic and Movies – Part 1

Magic and Movies – Part 1

We reward the magician that can coax our mind to suspend disbelief, providing a new “obstacle course” for our brain. Like our bodies, our spirits want to jump the ruts and get some exercise too. Anything that allows new possibilities to bubble up, leaves us satisfied and in a good mood.

 
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