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sound effects interrupt you. do not do that 8:24 specifically sound effects. not stan memes

Subbed, love thissss ❤❤❤

Another banger! lol @ the comment about speaking very fast. It reminds me of Montre's class, but unlike discussions with her, I can just scroll back and listen to a sentence again. Great work

I'm going to echo this. Buy a half-decent microphone (Rode are good). Audio is more important than visuals.

Great video, great ideas, but your voice/audio is hard to understand. You speak very fast, I had to make sure I didn't have the video on 2x speed.

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I really missed you and your reads 😂

A whole lot of words with very little actually being said…

Love this! Thank you

just discovered your essays the other day - really appreciate the passion and always the focus on actual radical politics thank youuuuuuuu

"I love some of the Wintour covers, what the fuck does she know about colonisation" SCREAM. You're so right.

Where could we watch the uncensored version?

Such a cool and flavorful list! I know I’m late to this video (I discovered your channel today from your new video!!) but I wanted to share my favs. I am interested in filmmaking and (anxiously) am starting to do film stuff! Before my 10 favs, here are some honorable mentions: a) Crazy Thunder Road - Sogo Ishii - I am a sucker for first films and student films (I’ve noticed) and this film is no exception. It has some really fun creative sequences and beautiful colors. It also plays with themes of punk vs fascist life. Ishii was having too much fun here. b) Buffalo 66’ - Vincent Gallo - Gallo is a fascist piece of shit, but I somehow find myself loving the admittedly his first film. Something about the way it makes you feel sorry for an absolutely unlikable man child, the dim hazy browns and yellow color design, the surreal musical moments, and so much more just really gets me. Gallo deserves all the hate he gets, but it makes me sad that this film might be in restoration hell for his political antics. c) Possession - Andrzej Żuławski - Yet another problematic abusive guy, this has some of the best acting I’ve ever seen. It’s so extreme it’s believable, you almost forget it’s acting. The themes and philosophy of it is really corny on paper but the delivery makes you forget analyzing it and just stay along for the insane camera work and horror sequences. My man list, in no exact order: 1) Gummo - Harmony Korine - His director debute. Best depiction of white trash I’ve seen. Ending is sudden and euphoric. 2) 2001 - Kubrick - Baby. Big baby. 3) Tongues Untied - Marlon Riggs - I watched this after skimming bell hooks’ essay *Is Paris Burning?* It feels a tad weird (albeit with hesitation) as a white queer person to love a film that’s very much not directed towards my exact experience, but Riggs’ presentation and openness seeps into me so deeply. Its style and approach is intoxicating start to finish, the hypnotic sound design and the montage effects are absolutely godly. I cry at the ending every time. (I REALLY need to see Looking for Langston, even tho I’m still new to the aids era of filmmaking I absolutely believed you when you said it’s some of the best of the last 30+ years) 4) Jeanne Dielman - Chantal Akerman - The most absorbing slow cinema, in my opinion. I also love Rublev (so glad to see it on your list!), but something about Akerman’s ability to depict womanhood, isolation, and anxiety here is so intense. It’s one thing to write an essay about the burden of doing chores, it’s another to show someone peeling a potato for 5 minutes with no cut. It’s that for 200 minutes and so much more! 5) Black Girl - Osumane Sembène - one of the most water tight 60 minute films ever and so important for colonialist unravelings and Senegal’s (and Africa’s) future. Some of the most memorable scenes and one of my favorite soundtracks ever. 6) Punch-Drunk Love - PTA - I also love There Will Be Blood! But for me, it’s the Adam Sandler type cast anxiety romcom. I think this, unintentionally, is the best depiction of neurodivergent embodiment and love on screen. So it hits me hard there. Some dialogue quips are a bit much, but the way the colors and soundtrack mix with Barry’s feelings hits so fucking hard for me. I could watch it every day. 7) Tetsuo the Iron Man - Shinya Tsukamoto - The best body horror film, maybe the best horror film. It’s also shockly queer, it’s not even subtext it’s just text. Soundtrack slaps, the editing is SO fun and inspiring, and the visuals are so particular and mesmerizing. 8) Yi Yi - Edward Yang - My favorite slice of life film, though it’s so much more than that. I always get emotional seeing Yang Yang’s speech, but also all the little complex and layered moments family members have with others. It’s so beautiful and earnest. 9) Je Tu Is Elle - Chantal Akerman - Her again! This one creeped up on me. I’m sorta picky about putting several films by one director so highly and in close proximity. But this one made me feel seen. Queer loneliness, through a lesbian gaze, in the highest order. Knowing Akerman’s departure from the world made this infinitely harder to digest. Might become my absolute favorite, I love her so deeply. 10) Beau Travail - Claire Denis - Everything about this film, it’s postcolonial setting, juxtaposition of masc and fem bodies in certain spaces, sensual movements, quiet reflection, alluring cinematography, multiple sources, so much about it is everything I want. I didn’t even fully dig it at first. But then the ending happens, and I wondered what it was for. It completely changed the way I thought about film forever, and for the better. Thanks for sharing! Hope you enjoy the list :)

This video was excellent. Thank you for your work!

See, I saw that thumbnail and mistook it for another interesting film Bobby was in called hi mom!

I love what you said about not “being stuck on the colonial origins of the camera” I’m currently a grad film student at Howard and we talk about AJ’s assertion that pointing a camera at a Black person, even if another Black person is behind the camera, creates a certain response bc psychological the subject recognizes it as a tool of white supremacy. I feel that it’s our job as image-makers interested in decolonizing to change that

I saw it on PBS back in 1981 and went mad for the music and the story. The direction and cinematography were excellent. The final shot was just mystical! I have been playing for 67 years and haven't crossed the bridge yet but Passing Through was all about that very thing. Just beautiful. And the insight into the criminal element in the recording industry was spot on.

great work !!!!

For the West when people are trying to fight an illegal occupation and kills 1200 innocent people, it is “appalling” and is terrorism, but when the state kills almost 20000 mostly innocent civilians in response, that’s “their right to defend themselves”. This is clearly how little the West values Palestinian lives compared to Israelis. The West is putting his racism in evidence without even noticing it. Narrowing down the whole conflict to October the 7th is very short-sighted.

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thank you!!!

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Thank you for making this and for providing resources!!!

Sincere thanks for talking about this. Free Palestine until it's backwards.

My BS meter goes off a lot here, especially when she was talking about lawsons work. Agency without control ? How ? where? The post modern mind is obsessed power , power relationships, it’s all about where one exists in relation to power structures. When you listen to a lot of these folks they frame everything they say within an idea about how power works in society . This is only one way of looking at the world and actually very limiting,

These videos are absolutely turning it for me with this film class I'm taking right now. Thank you my friend. Thank you so much.

I took the 11:06 mark to imply that enslaved Africans and the newly colonized Filipino are stand in for each others and will be useful in the same ways visually and materially.

I’m not sure if you’ve already made the Memoria video yet but I would pay to see it for sure.

Great list. Constantly changing but right now mine list is: Elena, The Beaches of Agnes, The Wind Journeys, Secret Sunshine, Somewhere, Hale County, Divine Intervention, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Clock (2010), Millennium Actress

oh wow

great to hear from the two of you on this. And the cut transitions were extra inspired!

A new video 🙌🏾

They showed everybody up close except my mother

Moving and important

Vital work.

So prescient and vital during our ongoing COVID times. I'm looking through Saalfield's videography and it seems (at least from my initial one over) that women directors had important roles to play in AIDS video media, something I don't see highlighted in mainstream women film scholarship. Thank you for putting this together!

oooohhhhhhhhhhhh thank you for the brilliant connections you make in this video!

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it's really finding a diamond in the rough to see a yt video with strong analysis based in history, knowledge, context, and *logics* that are actually explained. great vid

Immediately subscribed. Super well thought out and edited video essay, incredibly high quality, thoughtful commentary, I absolutely loved it

So we’re officially named “Varbs?” 😂🎉 I LIVE!!! Also, are you gonna review Swarm?

This channel is fantastic! Love what you're doing here. I'm going to be spending some time with this channel and spreading the word.

Is that Aj Paul Robeson lecture available anywhere?

I'm really happy that channels like you serve what in my opinion is the purpose of film critics: the cultivation of film history and making sure that people KNOW about the films and the history and development of film both artistically and technically I think too many people never get to experience most of film because they never ever hear about it in the first place

This was great! The wedding of neoliberalism and cinema to tell a story ultimately about how only those who collude with capital have to do it as a necessary evil but not taking the time to connect to a larger history was so insightful.

if they told a good story no one would care if the actors are black. But you can't do that! You got to insert political crap into it. We just want good storytelling. Don't want your propaganda shoved down our throats. Just tell a good story. It is just that simple. But no one can do that anymore.

Your channel is such a gem, so informative and always leave with some form of knowledge after watching your videos ✨

Really appreciate the words about oblique meaning/feeling, using the setting, etc. I feel a visceral reaction inside me when people complain about how Solo was too dark, esp from ppl who later make/reblog ugly gifs "correcting" the coloring.

Another good British queer film is B.D. Woman! (I think Women Make Movies) has it still. it's like part documentary. Part love story.

I absolutely love this movie and the filmmaker is so cool too.