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little house on the prairie: zabriskie point
Getting away from it all and building a dream home in the middle of everywhere and nowhere. It’s a bit like a Paul Theroux’s Mosquito Coast except this is landlocked, dry and hot.What about following E.B. White’s command to be … Continue reading
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A COSMOS DEVOID OF ABSOLUTES
”Antonioni’s breakthrough masterpiece, L’Avventura, paints an austere picture of late modernity. If Stanley Cavell is correct to say that the cinematic apparatus delineates a world that transcends beyond the framed canvas of the traditional painted image (that is, we wonder what … Continue reading
DOOMED TO MALAISE & ALIENATION
”After the release of L’Avventura, the bold aesthetic risks Antonioni took with the film received so much criticism the filmmakers were booed at the initial Cannes Film Festival premiere (where, after much controversy, the film also subsequently won the critics’ … Continue reading