A Glitch in the Matrix, But Prepare to Be Disappointed by Charles Mudede • Jan 31, 2021 at 2:30 pm
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I want to begin by asserting this fact: You do not live in a simulation. You live in the world impressively explained by the Standard Model of particle physics, the theory of general relativity, Newtonian mechanics, and quantum mechanics. There really is a
there out there and in wherever you are. To believe otherwise is sadly a consequence of two things, which can be attributed to a bad education: You have confused capitalist realism (a cultural construction) with the real thing and you have not read Spinoza, the antidote to much of the Cartesianism that is packaged, and repackaged, and re-repackaged for mass consumption. You think you know Jesus seriously? No, you don t. You mostly see the world through the concepts designed by a 17th-century French freak/philosopher c
A film doomed by convention,
Land is a competent but boring look at one woman s venture into Wyoming s wilderness that fails to go in any exciting narrative directions.
The find yourself in nature story has become a subgenre of its own, and
Land plays into nearly all of its cliches. In this case, the character finding themselves is Edee and is played by Robin Wright in what is also her directorial debut. The last time audiences would have seen Wright was briefly in last year s misfire that was
Wonder Woman 1984. Thankfully, there is something more interesting going on here, with Edee running from her past, though only barely. If this film were a meal, it would be the cans of beans Edee eats over and over.
“It’s going really well,” Josh Braun, co-founder of the hybrid sales, production and distribution company Submarine, told TheWrap. “At any normal Sundance, you often get to Sunday night and you evaluate what the market looks like and, traditionally, you feel like this dam is about to burst and all the announcements come Monday and Tuesday. This year, it’s different, in that all the premieres will have happened at the end of tonight.”
In the past four days, Sony Pictures Classics picked up the documentary “Jockey,” Neon made a seven-figure deal for the animated documentary “Flee” and bought the Alvin Ailey doc “Ailey,” and Apple broke festival sales records with its $25 million acquisition of “CODA.” And that doesn’t include sales of films before the festival even started, with RLJE Films buying Nicolas Cage’s “Prisoners of a Ghostland” and Juno picking up “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World.”
Sundance 2021 first impressions: In the Same Breath, In the Earth, Knocking, The Pink Cloud, How It Ends Mining the woes of our fluid reality, this year s line-up captures the dissonance we ve all felt under long stretches of self-isolation. Prahlad Srihari February 01, 2021 08:19:47 IST , pandemic movies mostly made for cautionary lessons and vicarious thrill rides. They were heightened realities we watched from the safety of a controlled environment behind layers of allegory. With thousands still dying every day, it has sadly become all too literal. Perhaps watching such movies, and still enjoying them is a masochism of sorts. But they also serve as a broad enough metaphor to encompass a variety of ailments currently afflicting the human condition.
Captains of Zaatari Review: Heartfelt, Gorgeously Photographed Doc Offers Unique Look Into Syrian Crisis Captains of Zaatari Review: Heartfelt, Gorgeously Photographed Doc Offers Unique Look Into Syrian Crisis
Two teenaged refugee best friends seek hope and a shot at a better future on the soccer field in journalist Ali El Arabi s stunningly cinematic debut.
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Running time: Running time: 73 MIN.
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Hope is in the DNA of competitive sports. Comes with it a shot at victory, a rush of optimism for what might follow. The sensation only multiplies through unity not just with one’s team, but also fans cheering on. Through his profoundly humanistic nonfiction feature debut “Captains of Zaatari,” a moving tale of two Syrian teenagers with a deep love for soccer, filmmaker Ali El Arabi captures what that kind of hope can mean to those with bleakly limited options. He does so with stunning cinematic a