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2025-09-13T12:06:18-04:00

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3 Women: Dream of Personhood

Last updated on: September 13, 2025 at 12:06 pm By Chase Padusniak

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In The Day of the Locust (1939), Nathanael West comments that the scraggly crowds of Okies and treasure-seekers have “come to California to die.” Since at least Frederick Jackson Turner, Americans have known that California is a cliff. We rush to it and plunge off because the plains are too dry, the beaches too pretty, and, most of all, because there’s nowhere else to go. Rot untended in our vast fields, become a child actor, or push your own kid... Read more

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2025-09-07T14:59:41-04:00

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Twisted Issues: Psychotronic Skateboards

Last updated on: September 7, 2025 at 2:59 pm By Chase Padusniak

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I had the honor (and a lot of fun) chatting with Twisted Issues (1988) director Charles Pinion for my new podcast, co-hosted with Sam McIlhagga, Death is a Photograph. As has been the case for a couple weeks and will be the case for a while, I don’t have a ton of time, as I’ve started a new job. I can’t write like I’d like to. But, following our talk, I had a few thoughts. Why not jot them down... Read more

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2025-08-30T12:51:39-04:00

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Not Quite All about All about Eve

Last updated on: August 30, 2025 at 12:51 pm By Chase Padusniak

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It’s always a joy to finally watch a classic movie, one you’ve known about forever but never got around to. In this case, I mean All About Eve (1950), one in a storied tradition of starlet v. parvenu films. I’m in a pickle, however. I’m a blogger, someone who writes for practice. My day jobs afford little time for writing for fun. Starting a new job means even less time than usual. What to say, and say briefly, about a... Read more

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Sweet Smell of Success

2025-08-28T17:56:55-04:00

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Death by Hanging: Playing with Justice

Last updated on: August 28, 2025 at 5:56 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Sister Helen Prejean by way of Brecht and Kim Il-Sung, Death by Hanging (1968) is one of those New Wave films that sits uneasily on the line between documentary and fantasy. Nagisa Oshima, the director, culls his material from real life. The case of a Japanese-Korean student who killed two schoolgirls, his correspondence with a North Korea-sympathetic journalist, and the popularity of the death penalty in 1960s Japan form his topics. His form blurs realistic shots and descriptions of the... Read more

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2025-08-24T15:09:31-04:00

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The Red Shoes: No Subtitle Needed

Last updated on: August 24, 2025 at 3:09 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Subtitles do well with SEO, I’m told. So, there it is. But what can someone write it that Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes (1948) doesn’t say about itself? The famed British directing duo adapt a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about an ambitious dancer driven to destruction by a pair of magical red shoes by following a couple years in the life of Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), an ambitious, troubled ballerina who finds breakout success starring in... Read more

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2025-08-16T15:51:48-04:00

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Weapons: A Pleasing Misfire

Last updated on: August 16, 2025 at 3:51 pm By Chase Padusniak

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I am putting on my bullet-proof vest and requesting a firearm license. The night is closing in all around. Here comes the darkness, the haters. Am I being dramatic? Yes. Do I think it’s funny? Yes. Do you care? Let me know. I liked Weapons (2025). It’s a cut above most other horror films in this golden age (so far as quantity is concerned, if not always quality). It’s hard to sing its praises without revealing too much. But suffice... Read more

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2025-08-11T13:51:01-04:00

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Dementia: Silent Nightmare

Last updated on: August 11, 2025 at 1:51 pm By Chase Padusniak

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I respect silent movies. But that’s about it. I’ve seen a couple dozen of them, probably. None has ever gripped me, more artifacts for cinematic excavation than objects of enjoyment. I watch them the way a teen checks off the canon, uncomprehendingly, in awe, but with no real feeling. I consider my feelings about silent film a source of sadness. If I can read medieval romances—precursors to the novel—with glee. Why can’t I appreciate the pre-talkies? I suspect the issue... Read more

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2025-08-08T15:22:56-04:00

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An Autumn Afternoon: Last Call

Last updated on: August 8, 2025 at 3:22 pm By Chase Padusniak

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We, or they, have canonized Yasujiro Ozu. If you’re 15 and tentatively adopting the moniker “cinephile,” he’s on the list, and you must watch his work, at least Tokyo Story (1952). The trouble is that his films are for adults. They are slow and ponderous. The camera rarely moves. He conveys dialogue through straight-on shot-reverse-shots. His themes are family dysfunction, the passage of time, death, the modernization of Japan, and the relationships among parents and their children. At 15 (or... Read more

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2025-08-03T14:47:37-04:00

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Fassbinder’s Jail Bait: You’ve Gotta Serve Somebody

Last updated on: August 3, 2025 at 2:47 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (I do not know the man) believed in love. He believed in its power to degrade and to destroy. Franz Biberkopf in Fox and His Friends (1975) wins the lottery and the love of a wealthier man, only to find that the object of love is never inert. In a Year of 13 Moons’ degendered protagonist Edwin/Elvira seeks castration to satisfy the joking desires of their supposed soulmate. The eponymous Martha (1974) sacrifices independence and happiness for... Read more

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2025-07-28T17:13:56-04:00

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Beau Is Afraid; I Am Afraid

Last updated on: July 28, 2025 at 5:13 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid (2023) is a sickness unto death. Or, to roll with another Kierkegaard book, it shoves your face into the concept of anxiety. Or, to catch the end of that text’s subtitle, it’s a deliberation on the hereditary problem of original sin. Take your pick. In any case, it’s a film for those who stay awake at night watching an endless algorithm of past blunders made more decreating by time. I saw a tweet recently (an... Read more

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