Post Draft

I don't have the energy to work with an editor.

Author: Brian

  • Montage

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    I found this markdown document in a drafts folder, dated June 2022. I didn’t look at it at all, just copied and pasted into the CMS. Soviet montage theory. It’s pretty simple – the idea is that the images in cinema don’t produce meaning on their own. It’s the juxtaposition of images through editing, through…

  • Gods of Mexico (Dosantos, 2022)

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    It’s all mining! and some cock fighting and dancing striking the portraits! love when people who aren’t usually on screens get to stare back at the camera the sound. Director from Italy, talking about fixers in the interview extra feature

  • Remedy spaces

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  • The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

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    I read a couple of Martin McDonagh plays in undergrad, and i saw a performance of The Beauty Queen of Leenane about a decade ago. I watched Banshees of Inisherin last night for the first time so I am now all caught up on his filmography. I think it was that it’s his first fully-Ireland…

  • Oh no, I finished Reading Chris Crawford’s The Art of Computer Game Design

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    from a discord thread where I posted stuf another chapter of Chris Crawford tonight: There are situations in which it is not quite possible to attain the purity of this artistic ideal. For example, I would not claim that only immature, childish people should design games for children. Nor would I suggest that good shoot-’em-up…

  • Oh no, I started Reading Chris Crawford’s The Art of Computer Game Design

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    I found a PDF of an HTML version online. Two quotes ripped out of their context in Chris Crawford’s preface to The Art of Computer Game Design: The computer game is an art form because it presents its audience with fantasy experiences that stimulate emotion. This more sizable investment of participation yields a commensurately greater…

  • Despelote (2025)

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    This was beautiful and sweet and I am so glad it exists and I could not hold my attention on most of the soccer-playing* but damn that 3D scan of the area from 2024 was great *until the final scene ** but then when the camera shifted into the ball, two of the characters were…

  • Driver: San Francisco

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  • Clair Obscur (spoilers obvs)

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    I chose the Maelle ending. I think it’s kind of weird that the ultimate takeaway here appears to be: Maelle and her mother were unable to process their grief and move on, her father and the fictional version of her brother were right about that. It feels maybe a little disappointing? to spend all that…

  • Diabolique (1996)

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    I watched the 1996 remake of Diabolique yesterday.