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"both high and low culture have produced masterpieces and works of mediocrity. it is our task to find beauty in unexpected places." — jahsonic (june, 2006), art & popular culture wiki

"i urge you: learn to look at ‘bad’ films, they are so often sublime." — adonis kyrou,
le surréalisme au cinéma (1953)

"a still is not a film. it lacks the dimensions of time and movement — indispensable components of film art — and represents only a small fraction of a single second of a given motion picture." — amos vogel, film as a subversive art (1974)

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bad gurl rhi rhi

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descroissants replied to your photo: SIDE EFFECTS (STEVE SODERBERGH, 2013)

this is on my watchlist. any comments on the film without giving too much away?

people have said it’s like hitchcock. they aren’t wrong. it’s very clever. rooney mara is great. some bits actually reminded me of de palma’s DRESSED TO KILL for some reason. i’m not sure all its conceptual threads work together nicely. in either case, the tensions are interesting. its resolution comes on too fast and too hard, readily revealing all its secrets to its audience before sufficient suspense can be built; soderbergh should have played up the paranoia a bit more. in either case, i liked it.

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WEEK END (JEAN-LUC GODARD, 1967)

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The caption that originally accompanied this image when it ran in LIFE: “Spiritual simplicity was Mies’ aim in designing the Illinois Tech Chapel. Maintaining the basic campus pattern, he insisted on flat-roofed rectangle but provided brick walls to give the chapel a sense of privacy and solitude. Steel mullions of the facade echo shape of the cross above the altar.”

wonderful building,

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Carla Graziano

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cassamlooch:

Rosario Dawson smoking in a schoolgirl outfit.

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