Lumière en Sous-titrons!1d ago

🎭 Cast: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII, Sugar Ray Robinson, …

📝 Plot: A provocative French essay film exploring African art and its devaluation under European colonialism, juxtaposing cultural heritage with museum display and critiquing Western perception of non‑Western art in a reflective documentary short.

#LesStatuesMeurentAussi #Documentary #Art #ColonialCritique #AfricanCulture #FilmEssay #Memory #Preservation

Jammo2d ago

After a break, I’m back to writing. Adding my voice to the ever-growing chorus of podgy middle-aged men on the internet, I’ve written a TL;DR essay about John Carpenter’s The Thing: hyperrealism, viral horror, post-truth, and performed masculinity. If that’s your kind of ding…

https://fuzzyfrontiers.org/film/film-review/the-thing-i-know-im-human/

#TheThing
#JohnCarpenter
#FilmCriticism
#FilmEssay
#HorrorCinema
#BodyHorror
#PostTruth
#Hyperreal
#CultCinema

The Thing - I know I'm Human - Fuzzy Frontiers

Over forty years since its theatrical release, John Carpenter’s Antarctic elegy to paranoia and social atomisation feels less like fiction

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jpDec 19
Two Bible movies. Zero tolerance for ambiguity. Lots of imaginary Romans. A look at how modern religious cinema flattens early Christianity into something safe, tidy, and historically unrecognizable.
#FilmCriticism #ReligiousCinema #Apocalypse #FilmEssay #CriticalThinking #FilmAnalysis #Bible
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/the-tension-of-tradition-and-historiography-a-critical-analysis-of-the-apocalypse-2002-and-paul-apostle-of-christ-2018/
The Tension of Tradition and Historiography: A Critical Analysis of The Apocalypse (2002) and Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)

The cinematic representation of early Christianity frequently navigates a precarious path between hagiographic tradition and the rigorous demands of historical criticism. In the case of The Apocaly…

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jpDec 17
Nouvelle Vie treats prostitution like a habit you can quit, not a system you’re trapped in. That confusion isn’t poetic—it’s dangerous.
#NouvelleVie #FilmCriticism #SexWork #Exploitation #FilmReview #FilmEssay
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/the-pathology-of-survival-a-critical-analysis-of-richi-mbebeles-nouvelle-vie/
The Pathology of Survival: A Critical Analysis of Richi Mbebele’s Nouvelle Vie

Nouvelle Vie (2024) makes a fundamental mistake: it conflates prostitution with drug addiction. Not sex (of which there is none) but prostitution, which the film treats not as labor, not as exploit…

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jpDec 15
When movies confuse implication with proof and call it investigation, everyone loses—history, truth, and the audience. A look at how cinema turns hunches into “revelations.”
#LawrenceAfterArabia #Zodiac #FilmEssay #CriticalThinking #TrueCrime #History #Epistemology #MovieReview
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/the-epistemology-of-narrative-certainty-historical-revisionism-and-the-substitution-of-evidence-in-cinematic-docu-drama/
The Epistemology of Narrative Certainty: Historical Revisionism and the Substitution of Evidence in Cinematic Docu-Drama

The production of historical cinema and docu-dramas often presents an ethical challenge: reconciling the demands of dramatic storytelling, which requires narrative coherence and closure, with the s…

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jpNov 4
I’ve always thought that Jodie Foster is either very smart or endowed with the uncanny ability to project intelligence. The Beaver (2011) is neither of those things, but its problem is not so much that it’s dumb as that it’s lazy.
#FilmCriticism #TheBeaver #JodieFoster #MelGibson #MovieReview #PsychologicalDrama #Cinema #FilmAnalysis #MentalHealthInFilm #Satire #FilmEssay
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/the-beaver-a-study-in-cinematic-laziness/
The Beaver: A Study in Cinematic Laziness

I’ve always thought that Jodie Foster is either very smart or endowed with the uncanny ability to project intelligence. The Beaver (2011) is neither of those things, but its problem is not so much …

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jpOct 31
Like many a shoestring, found-footage horror flick, Name the Demon (2024) exists somewhere between genuine boredom and contrived coincidence. I’ll buy that due to an increase in both the demand for the ritual and scrutiny over the Catholic Church, the Vatican requires that all exorcisms be recorded. What’s the excuse, though, for filming absolutely everything else?
#NameTheDemon #FilmEssay #HorrorMovies #ExorcismFilm #CinemaAnalysis #FoundFootage
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/name-the-demon-and-the-aesthetics-of-boredom/
Name the Demon and the Aesthetics of Boredom

Like many a shoestring, found-footage horror flick, Name the Demon (2024) exists somewhere between genuine boredom and contrived coincidence. I’ll buy that due to an increase in both the demand for…

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Filmgalerie Phase IVOct 20

Reihe „Architektur im Film“: wir zeigen das ⁨#Drama „Welcome Venice“ von ⁨⁨#AndreaSegre aus dem Jahr 2022 zusammen mit dem Zentrum für Baukultur
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– Wann: Mittwoch, 22. Oktober, 20.00 Uhr
– Wo: ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#ZfBK⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ im Kulturpalast (Eingang über Galeriestraße)
– Eintritt frei, wir freuen uns über eine Spende
– Fassung: Ital. Originalfassung mit dt. Untertiteln
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Weitere Informationen:
https://www.zfbk.de/programm/architektur-im-film-welcome-venice/

https://www.polyfilm.at/film/welcome-venice/

⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Venedig ⁨#Venice #Architektur⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#architecture⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#cinemastodon⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Documentary⁩ ⁨#Filmessay⁩ ⁨#Kino⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Film⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Cinema⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Movie⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#FilmBubble⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ #cinemastodon #DresdenBubble⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩

jpOct 12
True Crime (1995) functions as a cautionary case study in narrative execution. It sacrifices procedural and contextual realism for the sake of immediate melodrama, resulting in structural absurdities that undermine its thematic ambitions.
#TrueCrime1995 #AliciaSilverstone #90sCinema #FilmCriticism #CultMovies #BadMoviesWeLove #MovieReview #TeenThriller #FilmEssay #CinemaSatire
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/true-crime/
True Crime (1995)

According to True Crime, “a cop has to be able to distinguish between fact and fantasy.” So should a filmmaker, especially when his movie has the word “true” in the title, priming the audience to e…

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Filmgalerie Phase IVSep 15

Reihe „Architektur im Film“: wir zeigen den #Dokumentarfilm „Die Sonneninsel“ von ⁨#ThomasElsaesser aus dem Jahr 2017 zusammen mit dem Zentrum für Baukultur ⁨⁨⁨#ZfBK⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩
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– Wann: Mittwoch, 17. September, 20.00 Uhr
– Wo: ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨ZfBk im Kulturpalast (Eingang über Galeriestraße)
– Eintritt frei, wir freuen uns über eine Spende
– Fassung: deutsch
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Weitere Informationen: ⁨⁩https://www.zfbk.de/programm/architektur-im-film-die-sonneninsel/

⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Frankfurt #MartinElsaesser #LeberechtMigge #NeuesBauen #Menageatrois #Architektur⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#architecture⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#cinemastodon⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Documentary #Filmessay #Kino⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Film⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Cinema⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Movie⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#FilmBubble⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#DresdenBubble⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩