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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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a cinematic age of auteurism without responsibility

By the mid-1970s Farber knew what he wanted from audiences. He wanted them to be Farber. “The audience,” he said, “should be fantastically dialectical, involved in a continuing discussion of every movie.” He wanted the same from filmmakers: “The person making the movie should be held responsible fo…

—p.328 The Earth Dies Streaming Insoluble Farber (325) by A S Hamrah
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like robot locusts

In a series of bad dreams, Brad Pitt combines with Forrest Gump, E.T., Oliver from The Brady Bunch, the baby from Eraserhead, Tom Waits album covers, Dr. Zhivago, Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld, on and on, like robot locusts eating the inside of the movie theater for three hours.

—p.321 Nature Will Regulate Us (317) by A S Hamrah
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limn

The Depression was not just an urban phenomenon limned in Warner Bros. gangster films and Gold Diggers musicals

—p.308 Alien Land (301) by A S Hamrah
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The Hurt Locker is actually pro-war

Far from being nonideological or apolitical, The Hurt Locker is actually pro-war, and it’s not a contradiction that it’s the best American film made about the war in Iraq so far. Kathryn Bigelow’s film explicitly states that it is better to spend every day of your life risking getting blown to piec…

—p.297 This Planet Is Not Yours to Rule (291) by A S Hamrah
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vituperation

Whatever Works is a vituperative, hostile film that mellows after a great painful-looking shot of Larry David lying on top of a woman he’s landed on while trying to commit suicide by jumping out a window

—p.293 This Planet Is Not Yours to Rule (291) by A S Hamrah
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