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Audio versions of essays from Cinema Year Zero
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TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE | PSYCHOPOMP
2012’s Trouble With The Curve opens on a then-83 year-old Clint Eastwood in dialogue with his penis, attempting to coax pee out by berating it with gruff, raspy words.
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MINORITY REPORT | PSYCHOPOMP
Detective John Anderton spends his days in the future, solving murders that haven’t happened yet.
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A STONE’S THROW | PSYCHOPOMP
During each presentation at the fourth and latest edition of New York’s Prismatic Ground film festival, which focuses on experimental and documentary cinema, the founder and organiser, Inney Prakash, made it a point to note that the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli, British, and American governments was ongoing.
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P.S. WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO DIE | PSYCHOPOMP
Think of Arnold van Gennep.
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DARK BLOOD | PSYCHOPOMP
“I shot the movie in 1993,” rasps the unseen director George Sluizer with a Herzog-like Germanic twang, his haggard voice emanating from the screen as it zooms slowly in on a still photograph: Sluizer’s arm is linked casually, almost absent-mindedly, with that of his star River Phoenix, who looks off into the distance (it is unclear whether he knows the camera is there). They are shooting Dark Blood (2012), a morose neo-Western whose production would be forever halted by Phoenix’s sudden and tragic overdose outside a nightclub in West Hollywood.
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