To be bold, to dare to be stupid: this single frame in The Great Dictator is the most essential frame occurring in Charles Chaplin’s filmography. It is the most elegant and achy navigation out of comedy, straight through tragedy, and into something like the human struggle ever captured by camera.
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Frank Falisi is a writer and actor from Freehold, New Jersey. He wrote for Tiny Mix Tapes and currently contributes essays on moving image culture to Bright Wall/ Dark Room.
Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is a startling experience in how incomprehension, grief, and love can reshape the world.
“Deep listening” to Malick is valuable, but only so much in that it reminds us that artists are just humans doing their best to be in the world with other humans.
Hot Rod is an activist text. It is not escapist; its weirdness calls attention to the flaws of our world instead of distracting from them.
Relocating care and running through the invisible world in Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy.
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