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The Spirit of ‘76

The Spirit of ‘76
13 Aug, 11:10 AM

Time Travel – Through its flawed recounting of history, The Spirit of ‘76 presages later entries into the nostalgic media canon, presenting history as little more than a commercial for the products that were available at the time. To dismiss the seventies as an embarrassing time in American history is insulting to the socio-political changes that took place during the period, as well as the vast achievements of art, music, and cinema. Unlike other nostalgic films, the use of time travel in The Spirit of ‘76 provides a space for it to critique itself and all nostalgic media, though perhaps inadvertently.

Review by David Carter  /  Comment

Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
12 Aug, 11:39 AM

Time Travel – Czech writer-director Jindrich Polak’s film Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea examines the dangers of tourism across time through a loutish pilot, his do-good twin brother, and a gang of expatriate Nazis. It is the 1990s, and history as we know it now – not to mention the fate of the entire world and its billions of people – would be in serious danger were it not for Polak’s own Bradburian catalyst: a single breakfast roll.

Review by Adam Balz  /  Comment

The Beaches of Agnès

The Beaches of Agnès
11 Aug, 5:21 PM

Agnès Varda – Amid serious histories Varda intersperses silly diversions. She drives a cardboard cutout car. She sits secluded in a large arts and crafts whale on the beach or a hut built of filmstrips. She talks to an animated orange cat that stands in for her friend Chris Marker. This is no pessimistic lament about the reductionist violence that representation does to its would-be objects. It’s a game, but what a game. It’s a life.

Review by Ben Ewing  /  Comment

The Navigator

The Navigator
11 Aug, 10:50 AM

Time Travel – Unexpectedly, this sudden emergence into a world over six hundred years removed from their own does not divert the men from their mission. Yes, there are a few moments of fish-out-of-the-water fun, including a harrowing highway crossing and a bewildering glimpse at television, but the time-traveling crew does not allow these curiosities to distract them from their ultimate objective. In fact, the film takes great pains to highlight the similarities, not the differences, between the 14th and 20th centuries, consistently offering the men tangible reminders that this strange new world is still their own.

Review by Thomas Scalzo  /  Comment

Cinévardaphoto

Cinévardaphoto
10 Aug, 5:05 PM

Agnès Varda – These three short films spanning Varda’s career are ordered chronologically, but this chronology is deceptive: the photograph in Ulysse, for example, was taken before the events of Salut les cubains. Each successive film has an older subject, in other words, and Varda’s arrangement of them here evidences a curatorial tendency to remember, contextualize, and ultimately preserve the past.

Review by Rumsey Taylor  /  Comment

Warlock

Warlock
10 Aug, 10:29 AM

Time Travel – Warlock is one of the few films to feature a time-travel device that’s purely supernatural, thus mitigating the need for any significant part of the narrative to be dedicated to explaining the hows and whys of the time shift. Indeed, the characters seem to have no problems accepting this as fact—even Kassandra does not require much convincing to believe that Redferne is from several centuries in the past and not simply an insane person.

Review by David Carter  /  Comment

The Gleaners and I

The Gleaners and I
09 Aug, 4:14 PM

For Varda, gleaning is fun, though it also remains a survival strategy for many of the people she encounters and (in her own disarming way) befriends. In The Gleaners and I she shows us the many types of people who subsist on scraps discarded by those who can afford to waste, giving us an ambivalent but thoughtful representation of poverty: her approach is marked by a genuine curiosity and empathy, but also a conspicuous lack of judgment (and a dash of awesome French hip-hop).

Review by Leo Goldsmith  /  Comment

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day
09 Aug, 11:44 AM

Time Travel – Far from presenting time travel as a vicarious path to audience pleasure – technically, Phil doesn’t travel through time, but remains stuck in it – the film underlines the ways in which most of us waste the time that we have. It’s a measure of Ramis’ and Murray’s comedic instincts, and especially Ramis’ warm optimism, that the film’s darker aspects, its subtle critique of how we live our lives, is less discussed than the romantic morality tale that provides the backbone for the film.

Review by Timothy Sun  /  Comment

The Time Machine

The Time Machine
08 Aug, 12:36 PM

Time Travel – With fond recollections of watching and rewatching Pal’s film, sometimes double-featured with The War of the Worlds, I expected to see a different, more mature side to an already personal film—something that, considering its depictions of nuclear fallout and a victimized civilization, would resonate today. And, in a sense, it does, though not in the ways that I had expected.

Review by Adam Balz  /  Comment

Trancers

Trancers
07 Aug, 11:16 AM

Time Travel – Within this somewhat predictable framework, Trancers contains a device unique among time travel cinema, referred to here as “travelling on the line.” By using an unspecified intravenous drug, an individual’s consciousness can be sent into the body of a biological ancestor at some point in the past.

Review by David Carter  /  Comments (2)

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