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2025-03-18T11:45:15-04:00

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The Substance (2024): All Style, No Substance

Last updated on: March 18, 2025 at 11:45 am By Chase Padusniak

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The Substance: Substance Wanted If someone whose brain were turned on eight hours a day from January 1, 2017 to January 1 2024—it doesn’t matter nights, days, mornings, evenings, or whatever else—if the physical organ of their thinking were jacked directly into Twitter (now X, the Everything App) and nothing else, if they received every datum of information about the universe, from cinema to current events, from that website, that brain would produce The Substance (2024). Ostensibly, Coralie Fargeat has... Read more

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2025-03-11T16:28:55-04:00

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Mickey 17: The Art of Literalism

Last updated on: March 11, 2025 at 4:28 pm By Chase Padusniak

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I have seen three Bong Joon-ho films (Snowpiercer, Parasite, and Mickey 17). In each case, the man’s work reflects a deep investment in allegory. What I mean is a marked literalness. The world is ending due to climate change; everyone is on a train, and the train’s layout reflects a broader truth about contemporary class society. It relies on abject working conditions, child labor, and inflexible hierarchies to sustain our current world. In the train too, we see little hands... Read more

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2025-03-05T12:51:44-04:00

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Salò and the Libidinal Horror of Fascist Power

Last updated on: March 5, 2025 at 12:51 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Salò, or the Circles of Hell During a break from a graduate seminar, I once expressed an interest in watching Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). My professor snickered nervously. It’s not that I wasn’t aware of its reputation. I knew to expect graphic violence, constant nudity, and general perversion. But I have never been one for moralism in filmmaking. As long the film wasn’t merely exploitative, what was there to laugh at or avoid?... Read more

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2025-02-23T21:44:37-04:00

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The Cremator: Neat, Orderly, Fascist

Last updated on: February 23, 2025 at 9:44 pm By Chase Padusniak

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What kind of person do you imagine became a Nazi? The manly, the droves of stomping Freikorps-Mitglieder staining the cobblestones with blood? The neopagan convert fired up at a chance for a revitalized Reich? A conscript in the Wehrmacht just following orders? Yes, yes, and, of course yes. But these are the easy questions. The harder version, at once banal and resistant to easy resolution, is one of calculation and differentiation. Are their types of insurance salesman who acquiesced? Did... Read more

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2025-02-19T17:33:51-04:00

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Man Bites Dog: And Then What?

Last updated on: February 19, 2025 at 5:33 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Some movies seek to entertain. Others have the gall to make one think. The truly perverse, like those by, say, the Coen Brothers, attempt both at the same time. After watching the Belgian black comedy-mockumentary Man Bites Dog (1992), I cannot shake this (masterfully crafted, in my opinion) three-branch classification system. I can’t tell what the film is up to. I’d heard of the movie before seeing it, almost always summarized in the same way: a documentary film crew follows... Read more

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2025-02-12T15:20:03-04:00

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Heart Eyes: Trump Deux, Folie à the Entire World

Last updated on: February 12, 2025 at 3:20 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Way back in the early 2010s, when the world was coming to terms with the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses, Slavoj Žižek told a joke. I wish I could share the clip, but among countless YouTube videos from channels called “I WOULD PREFER NOT TO” and “The Based Bureaucrat,” I have been unable to locate one. Let me relay it from memory in my own voice. “As our understanding of what constitutes assault changes, so will our ways... Read more

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2025-02-03T12:28:50-04:00

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Hairspray (1987): John Waters’ Frictionless Fantasy

Last updated on: February 3, 2025 at 12:28 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Hairspray: Simply Divine What do Ric Ocasek, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, and Ricki Lake have in common? Why, they’re all in John Waters’ Hairspray (1987), of course (I tried looking for something a bit cleverer—scavenging through astrological signs and looking over how death and birth months might be loosely tied together—but to no avail). Music, music, music, and talk TV—that about sums up this Baltimore-centered take on early-60s racial integration. Like me, many people might have seen the aughts-era remake... Read more

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2025-01-27T19:05:59-04:00

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Cecil B. Demented: Make Good Movies or Die!

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 7:05 pm By Chase Padusniak

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John Waters’ Cecil B. Demented (2000) asks the tough questions like “what kind of shlock is Hollywood turning out these days” and “can you scorch the roots of starlet to the point that she goes full Batty Hearst” (Patty the batty even appears in the film). As usual, Waters follows a gang of punks and outcasts in Baltimore, though with a(nother) twist. This group wants to make the great American outlaw film—Easy Rider (1969) in the style of G.G. Allin.... Read more

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2025-01-22T19:26:10-04:00

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David Lynch, Mystic

Last updated on: January 22, 2025 at 7:26 pm By Chase Padusniak

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“Mystics” get a bad rap these days. Casting a wide net as I prepared to write my dissertation, I recall checking out a book called something like Marxism and Mysticism, expecting a life-changing mash-up of the material and the spiritual. Instead, it was a book almost entirely about why proletarians don’t get that they’re the subject of history. Fair enough, I suppose. But even more mundane thinking places the “mystical” in the realm of the purely obfuscatory: religious nuts, tarot... Read more

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2025-01-19T18:10:43-04:00

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Last Year at Marienbad: Nausea in the Courtyard

Last updated on: January 19, 2025 at 6:10 pm By Chase Padusniak

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This really ought to be about David Lynch. But I can’t bring myself to give the man short shrift, to jot down a few thoughts to be done with it. More often than not I freely draft these mini reviews as a way to keep my typing fingers limber, creatively speaking anyway. Some weeks I can give them the time they deserve; others, I can do little more than channel a mouthful of air and hope for the best. Lynch... Read more

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