Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know. She reports that the dream is burningly painful, surely because it’s a picture of something that’s not this—the awful, inescapable present. Pop music and tech culture has caused invisible barriers to insulate people in Queena Li’s Bipolar. They’re watching them in chapters. Her foundering at living off the land harkens back to narratives that once had currency in the collective American subconscious. It was made in that aftermath, four years later. Launched in 1981 by three friends in a Houston diner, Compaq Computer set out to build a portable PC to take on IBM, the worldâs most pow Bethencourt and Hill’s omniscient gaze locks us in a holding pattern with people who are poignant but not, as portrayed here, necessarily interesting. Ed Gonzalez, The masterful final panel in Roman Polanski’s remarkable “Apartment Trilogy,” The Tenant surpasses even Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby in its portrayal of claustrophobia and dissipating sanity. Tasjan! That’s a challenge, but you also have the gift of the footage that exists that we captured in 2005 as a companion, guide, and style rubric. If certain plot points require some fairly significant suspension of disbelief, the film’s vision of a world in which we’re all being manipulated by our cherished products nevertheless rings chillingly true. Elise Nakhnikian, When Wilhelm Reich developed the concept of “sex economy” in 1931, he had in mind something like the way societal expectations or advertising may compel someone toward compulsory masturbation. It isn’t only food that forces the characters into submission. In ways both terrifying and ludicrous, the film explores how such essential modern tools as laptops, phones, and Skype can be turned against us by unseen forces. Cusp, intoxicated with pitying the irresolution of its subjects, doesn’t ask such questions. Cut 25 minutes from CODA and it could almost be any other film about teenagers looking to distinguish themselves from their parents, with caricatures of well-meaning adults and friends. As Bol and Rial contend with their adversities, their home becomes an increasingly dangerous battleground in which they’re forced to wrestle with their inner demons and find ways to adapt without fundamentally changing who they are. Silicon Cowboys on DVD January 17, 2017 starring Rod Canion, Jim Harris, Bill Murto. It’s Kubrick’s most prescient work, more astute and unsparing than any of his other films (and he had more where that came from) in putting the bleakest parts of human behavior under the microscope and laughing in disgust. The characters here always seem to know each other’s gossip, and they all seem to live most fully in the world of social media. Aaloni, whose mother talks to her as a peer and whose PTSD-afflicted veteran father regards his family as “peasants,” appears to be the most mature of the girls, and in the film’s most terrifying and moving scene she bravely confronts her father after he insults her sister. We aren’t, as the ubiquitous Microsoft commercial would have us believe, living in the future we always dreamed of, but rather in a nightmare of our own design. Tech geeks, entrepreneurial wannabes and anyone fond of David-vs.-Goliath dust-ups likely will enjoy interfacing with âSilicon Cowboys,â a slick and streamlined documentary about the ⦠Christopher Gray, The Mad Max trilogy is the work of a talented virtuoso who blended seemingly every trope of every movie genre into a series of punk-rock action films. I would just love, more than anything in my whole career, to be able to finish this project. But given how you want to incorporate graphic novels or other intersecting forms of media into the film, it seems like you might need something even bigger. Was there any backlash toward setting the film in 2008? Strip away the Art Deco glory of its towering cityscapes and factories and the synchronized movements of those who move through those environments and what’s even left? Almost everyone seems to want to be on it, in fact, as though Whithern were a dystopian prison—a provincial and isolated place, like many hometowns. It’s sort of like two companion films that are both unfinished. “I don’t know why I’m still here,” Edee confesses before the scene cuts off, thus leaving us with no specific indication of the source of her despair. But while Thoreau, in his day, could return to nature by camping out on a friend’s estate, being a 21st century woman, Edee (Wright) has to go all the way from Chicago to Wyoming to lose and then re-find herself. With Rod Canion, Jim Harris, Bill Murto, Bill Fargo. It soon transpires that the caller in question is Laura Barnes, a former friend of Blaire’s who committed suicide after an embarrassing video went viral, apparently back from the grave to take digital revenge. Brittney, Autumn, and Aaloni all live in low-income housing and appear to have only perfunctory interest in anything besides booze, weed, clothes, and boys. An analog man in a digital world, Cronenberg invests a narrative along the lines of his father David’s eXistenZ and Christopher Nolan’s Inception with psychedelic imagery and jolts of gouging, bone-splitting, unambiguously in-camera body horror that rival anything in modern cinema for tactility and pure outrageousness. 5 star 48% 4 star 19% 3 star 10% 2 star 23% 1 star 0% (0%) 0% Silicon Cowboys. The only thing Leyendekker eroticizes in the film is coffee, in a sequence where one of the accused makes espresso and froths milk with the most delectable of frothers. With Southland Tales, I’m wanting to create a whole new film and shoot new footage that would integrate into the existing one to make a big double feature. Don’t avert your eyes from Alfredson’s gorgeously, meaningfully aestheticized vision, though you may want to cover your neck. Southland Tales is very much a post-9/11 piece of art that’s a product of that aftermath. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. The greatest pleasures in Agate Mousse come from simply watching the film change registers, digging further into or moving refreshingly away from its core concept: the perverse ecstasy of suffering. When the bonds between the Abbotts are tested by the external threat of the alien invaders, the viscerally physical ways in which they protect each other from harm are powerful, and it becomes clear that these characters have had to learn different and perhaps more subtle methods of communication due to the circumstances in which they’ve found themselves. It was a lot to digest back then. Sitting at the bar of a restaurant where silence is mandatory, his airpods act as a vessel for the devilish voice in his head. Many had tried cloning the industry leader's code, only to be trounced by IBM and its high-priced lawyers. It’s an enormous challenge to write a big, sprawling novel. I think the whole world feels like it was in this surreal dream world, and that we’re all still kind of waking up from it. See All Buying Options. These great horror films are currently streaming on Netflix. The paranormal happenings are very likely a combination of the mother’s hallucinations and the child’s way of making sense of the violence the mother perpetrates as her sanity ebbs and flows, but Anvari keeps things creepy in part by leaving open the possibility that there really may be something supernatural gripping his milieu. September 12, 2016. While Ray hopes for a quick rebound after being recently dumped, Alice can’t even muster a smile as she takes a dozen selfies in the woods. Whatever potential for romance drew them to a shared tent in a beautiful patch of nature is scuppered when a few awkward conversations with locals make them realize that they have very little in common. We needed to make two big movies to tell the whole story. The film is set in and around the fictional city of Whithren, which at times looks like Ingmar Bergman’s beloved Fårö in the Baltic Sea, at others a tumbledown Mediterranean hill village. 113 Views . But nobody respects a Goliath that’s gutted by its fellow philistine. Cam is also one of the first American films to grapple with the realities of being doxed to family and friends, further demonstrating its primary acumen as a check on the social pulse of a particular strain of U.S. conservatism that continues to think about and patrol sex work, and those who participate in it, in even pre-Reichian terms. The film now exists in a twilight of an era in which factory-produced entertainment could still serve as a keyhole into a dimension of weird, through which we might glimpse the otherworldly, and contemplate fondling the third breast. But they’re united by their fearlessness in breaking down boundaries and thrusting us into worlds beyond our own. Some of these depictions are humorous, others haunting. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, for example, simply mines some of the concepts from Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The lure of the automobile as a sexual object also seems quaint when you consider that Ridley Scott had Cameron Diaz ride a bonnet in The Counselor, and that David Cronenberg, with Crash, made the definitive statement on the relationship between the cold machine and the warm body without landing as hard as Pinheiro does here into exploitation-leaning themes. We see him lying on a hospital bed, being told that he needs to lose one testicle in order to save the other, trading necrosis for prosthesis. Ed Gonzalez, With Mud and Take Shelter, writer-director Jeff Nichols has already used withholding narratives to weave distinctly Southern tales about fringe believers, survivalists who could also be seen as evangelists. There’s a memorably lonely, unsettling image of a long, gray tunnel that encapsulates Johnny’s straddling of two worlds: the conventional world, and the “dead zone” that he accesses when calling on his new power. © 2021 METACRITIC, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. But while Darius Marder’s film laces its clichés with a visceral approximation of a singer’s loss of hearing, CODA succumbs to banal coming-of-age sermonizing, shortchanging the power of a handful of well-textured moments. Silicon Cowboys, from FilmRise and Zipper Bros Films, presents the creation of the modern laptop that humbly began in a Houston Diner over an afternoon slice of pie with three guys who were unknowingly about to begin a revolution.. And while it’s no secret that most documentaries are often only as compelling as the real-life events they portray, it’s fair to say that Cohen’s slick aesthetics manage to elevate Silicon Cowboys beyond fellow “info dumps” of this caliber. The first few cars are rendered in the distancing apocalyptic hobo ax-and-sword aesthetic that’s been a cinema standard since at least the Mad Max films. After all, the giant philistine warrior that fell to David’s skillful sling has caught more than his fair share of posthumous flack, meeting the same ironic end again and again, if only by the pens of hacks in need of a standardized metaphor—even when the combatants described are far more closely matched than the author would have you believe. Jason Cohen’s slick aesthetics manage to elevate Silicon Cowboys beyond fellow “info dumps” of this caliber. After this recital, Frank and Ruby share a father-daughter moment outside their home after he asks her to sing just for him. How does Amazon calculate star ratings? The film’s singular ambition is to immerse the viewer in the thick of a frenzied drive toward the promise of a lover’s touch and a few more minutes of life. Tongue as silver as Audrey II, it not only manipulates others to kickstart a populist revolution against capitalism, it also steals the uncle’s girl (Jules Elting). We just went through a four-year Twilight Zone episode in a lot of ways. That’s what I’d tell them on a technical level, but on a thematic level, I would tell them it’s a portrait of the aughts, the aftermath of 9/11, and a kaleidoscope of paranoia. The film’s overtly non-specific title mostly just reflects the story’s lack of definable character. In one segment, a businessman receives an anonymous phone call, taunting him for, among other things, his mistress’s poorly kept Instagram page. You seem like an outlier among directors in your willingness to hold onto a project for so long. DVD/Blu-ray Release Calendar: November 2016. That’s what I envision for the six-hour expansion that I’m hoping to shoot. Despite the main character’s desperation to return to a kind of primal state, the digital, hyper-real landscape of the film feels unintentionally at odds with that quest, that Li’s imagined poetry, the stuff of the modern world, is something that Dou’s character must overcome in order to find something “real.”, An image from Renata Pinheiro’s King Kar. Sometimes she moves unnoticed through sequences as though a ghost, and as she crosses Tibet, she becomes increasingly alienated from her own self; everything from her outlook on the future to her gender expression to responses to the behavior of men is constantly shifting. Played by Mark Duplass with just the right mixture of oblivious eccentricity and simmering hurt, the deft handling of this potentially ridiculous character is one of the many nice touches in this surprisingly poignant comedy. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Cautious optimism is the guiding principle of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, which has opted, like other festivals since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, for a “hybrid” model. Writer-director Sian Heder’s CODA, like Sound of Metal, stuffs an examination of deaf culture into a crowd-pleasingly inspirational formula. Many companies had tried cloning the industry leader’s code, only to be trounced by IBM and its high-priced lawyers. Taylor stages violence with an unmooring sense of bodily concussion—which is rendered all the more disturbing by the film’s nasty comic streak. âSilicon Cowboysâ is a documentary that breaks down the wild-west mentality of the personal computer industry from Compaq to IBM and beyond, but is basically a story of the rise and fall of Compaq Computers. Things weren’t looking good. When bad-guy Goliath IBM releases a new computer with a chip that nobody has seen before, we see photo after photo of Compaq personnel ripping out the circuit boards of their competitor’s machine the same day, trying to figure out what makes the magic happen. But they knew that people were the real story. But Land’s effort to revivify this narrative, and with a modern woman at its center, feels strained and oddly imitative, not unlike the way Edee goes about improvising animal traps. A master class in ominous, insinuating mise-en-scène, this is the ultimate Polanski skin-crawler and one of cinema’s supreme paranoid fantasias. My films have never really gone down easily in terms of their reception. And, if not, what does such a state say or not say about their inner lives? The film is most notable for its evolving visual concept: Each car takes one closer to a representation of the world as it presently works. Across a set of encounters between upper middle-class people, relationships become increasingly fleeting and mutual understanding more elusive (shades of Hong Sang-soo). In my mind, some of the films that I’ve made would just be one chapter in a much bigger novel in my head. With the help of his childhood friend, Lucas (Joel Edgerton), Alton’s father, Roy (Michael Shannon), has kidnapped the child from captivity at a compound run by a Branch Davidian-like cult that once counted Roy as a member. In a vignette where a battle of attrition between warring neighbors is effectively won by someone who owns the biggest, most obnoxious sound system, we see how waves of technology place barriers between people, and how for these well-to-do characters, their joie de vivre is derived from causing drama. Most significantly, she addresses the way plants can accept the symptoms caused by light viruses so that by the time the plant is infected with higher viruses it will carry on as normal, working with the pathogen in a sort of collaboration. But I will always kind of go back to 9/11 as another catastrophic, seismic event that just altered the course of history. [laughs] I say that with humility and gratitude for the opportunities I’ve been given. I’ve done so much work to expand the story, and there’s a graphic novel prequel series to the film. Not long afterward, Ruby is singing beautifully and being encouraged by her choir instructor (Eugenio Derbez) to apply for a scholarship at Berklee. Beneath its show of smoke and mirrors, mercenary babes, and treacherous holograms, Total Recall is a story about a man who must choose between two possible, contradictory realities. I definitely didn’t have the budget that I needed on the first two films to do everything I wanted to do in terms of visual effects. The girls’ vulnerability, and the defensive impression of shallowness it fosters, is Cusp’s only subject, and so the many sequences of girls drinking, checking their phones, and confessing their secrets start to grow repetitive. Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Many companies had tried cloning the industry leader’s code, only to be trounced by IBM and its high-priced lawyers. That’s very exciting. “All I do now is love my parents as I wait for them to die and for me to be knocked out by it,” he tells us. Budd Wilkins, Like an Iranian take on The Babadook, writer-director Babak Anvari’s Under the Shadow is an emotionally direct and realistic horror story centered around a socially isolated mother and child who are terrorized by eerie supernatural events. Also you got what the Coen brothers did with The Battle of Buster Scruggs and, obviously, Zack Snyder’s cuts of his prior work. If the anime series’s finale was a psychological breakthrough, End of Evangelion is the relapse, an implosion of self-annihilating revulsion and anger rendered in cosmic terms. Photographed by Daniel Pearl, who fashioned the sun-cracked landscapes of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the film’s images have a similarly gritty sense of overexposure. Politics are never mentioned, but the town abounds in conservative, implicitly aggressive iconography; a Confederate flag hangs on one teen’s bedroom wall, and guns are casually carried throughout, almost exclusively by boys. There are two books—well, there’s many books—that you see in Donnie Darko. It’s no accident that some of the greatest cinematic adaptations of sci-fi novels bear only a passing resemblance to their source material. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. This house, with its porous walls and ragged, peeling wallpaper, is eerily symbolic of its new inhabitants’ damaged psyches, their grief and guilt manifesting as ghosts—most chillingly in the form of zombified migrants who died during the perilous crossing to England that opens the film. The film, based on true events that rocked Holland in 2005, is a welcome reminder that the boundaries between wanting and not wanting are often unclear, that sexual desire’s tacit agreements are generally bound to be misunderstood by systems built on a logic of rationality. This man’s invisibility underscores a quality that’s both Cusp’s greatest strength and limitation. Many had tried cloning the industry leaderâs code, only to be trounced by IBM and its high-priced lawyers. As Cujo’s prospective victims, Dee Wallace Stone and Danny Pintauro give performances of such naked, panicked urgency that the viewer feels as if they’re eavesdropping on something privileged and primordially awful. It was made in 2005, completed in 2006, and even a little bit into 2007 in terms of trying to finish the theatrical version of the film. It’s definitely looking back further, much earlier than Trump. Thereafter, Edee goes from a neophyte to the outdoors to a grizzled survivalist mostly through the power of montage—and the impression of this transformation having been a fast one lessens the extent to which her self-imposed ordeal feels like one at all. Cast: Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Eugenio Derbez, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, John Fiore, Lonnie Farmer, Kevin Chapman, Amy Forsyth Director: Sian Heder Screenwriter: Sian Heder Distributor: Apple TV+ Running Time: 112 min Rating: NR Year: 2021. Having predictably learned nothing from their travails, the train’s passengers quickly assume the flawed social structure of the first world that’s recently ended, with the entitled haves exploiting the enraged have-nots. These distinct grammars are connected by a sustained detachment as we accompany a group of bareback-loving gay men accused of injecting HIV-infected blood into their chemsex partners without their consent. For every eviscerated remake or toothless throwback, there’s a startlingly fresh take on the genre’s most time-honored tropes; for every milquetoast PG-13 compromise, there’s a ferocious take-no-prisoners attempt to push the envelope on what we can honestly say about ourselves. And the carnage, when it arrives, is staged with an aura of guttural bitterness that refuses to give gore-hounds their jollies, elaborating, instead, on the desolation of the characters committing the acts. When Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a 12-year-old outcast perpetually bullied at school, meets Eli (Lina Leandersson), the mysterious new girl at his apartment complex, one child’s painful coming of age is conflated with another’s insatiable bloodlust. This new world with streaming platforms, you’re not as beholden to the risks of theatrical box office revenue. But despite the sublime natural environment into which the film throws Edee, there’s very little of the ineffable about either her or her surroundings. I do need to connect with regular audiences immediately. Bowen, More focused on emotion than adventure, Safety Not Guaranteed teases out the possibilities and perils of time travel without embroiling itself in the confusion inherent to the subject. Richard Scott Larson, Lewis Teague’s gallingly underrated adaptation of an equally underrated novel embraces the unwavering, visceral brutality of King’s writing in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. Complementing Jane’s portrait of coiled wrath, Molly Parker physicalizes the fear that informs every minute wrinkle of Arlette’s relationship with her husband, which the character attempts to paper over with bravado, inadvertently sealing her doom. “Do you wonder what was before?” Moira asks Lawrence, unnaturally and affectedly, during their courtship. For Mourad, as is often in the work of Dustan, Guibert, and Pinto, the artist is naked and the artist is sick—the price to pay for acknowledging self-implication in the artifacts one creates. Based on screenwriter Isa Mazzei’s own experiences as a cam model, the film is neither plainly sex positive nor outright cautionary in its depiction of Alice (Madeline Brewer), an up-and-coming streamer whose account is hacked and stolen by someone appearing to be her doppelgänger. We aren’t waiting to see if the accused get convicted, or reveling in descriptions of days-long bareback orgies. Directed by Jason Cohen. 26 customer ratings. Silicon Cowboys follows much of the form of the prolific Alex Gibney’s documentaries, especially in structure. As a drunk says to Alex (Malcolm McDowell) right before taking a vicious beating: “I don’t want to live anyway! The heartbreaking fall from sanity experienced by the trio of naïve filmmakers preys with ecstatic precision on our most instinctive fears, building to a rousing crescendo of primordial terror that’s arguably unrivaled by anything the genre has seen before or since. There’s a ripped-from-the-headlines quality to all of this, but the purpose isn’t merely to sensationalize; there are very real, very relevant contemporary anxieties coursing through this story, lending the horror a provocative charge. As she steals the lobster from the restaurant of a Tibetan hotel, convinced of its magical properties, and travels to its supposed resting place at Ming Island, meetings with others seem of little value to her. 5 star 60% 4 star 24% 3 star 7% 2 star 9% 1 star 0% (0%) 0% Silicon Cowboys. Please enter your birth date to watch this video: You are not allowed to view this material at this time.
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