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Emma Kansiz
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May 2, 2023May 4, 2023 They Live offers a lively take down on the mores of consumer culture and urban conformity without the eye roll …
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Emma Kansiz
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April 18, 2023April 29, 2023 “Because you’re looking at your inner self and you don’t recognize it because you’ve never seen it before” Drugstore Cowboy …
Continue reading “The Motel Room Narcissism of Drugstore Cowboy”
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Emma Kansiz
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April 11, 2023May 4, 2023 “I always know where I am by how the road looks” My Own Private Idaho is a dreamtime dreamscape, punctuated …
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Emma Kansiz
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December 22, 2022December 22, 2022 Wings of Desire is a visual poem that reflects most eloquently the currents of memory, the contours of longing, and …
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Emma Kansiz
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June 26, 2022 Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities It …
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Emma Kansiz
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January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 Terrence Malick’s 1973 directorial debut Badlands is in many respects a tale of escapism writ large over a collection of isolated …
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Emma Kansiz
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January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 Life is not a stroll across a field – Boris Pasternak Nostalgia. Nostalgia is a sorrowful lament for the memory …
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Emma Kansiz
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March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 Melancholy is a winged bird, descending into our lives, accompanied by a host of reveries, disillusionments, and small claims at …
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Emma Kansiz
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February 16, 2021August 20, 2021 “I would have died for him. So why aren’t I dead?” Latent with visual melancholy, the sweeping gestures of romance …
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Emma Kansiz
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July 22, 2020July 24, 2020 “Until we recognize a grandeur in the beatings of the heart” – William Wordsworth Days of Heaven is a languid …
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