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Category Archives: Films
Catastroika, The Movie
Aris Chatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidim — the same directors of Deptocracy (2011) — have just released a new documentary that explores the connection between the ongoing Greek crisis and similar crises around the world. They use Namoi Klein’s shock doctrine as their … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Films, Public Opinion, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged capital, Catatroika, Democracy, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism
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Hitch as a Teachable Moment
Usually, British cultural gossip is far more interesting than ours. One example is the recent controversy about whether popular cinema has a place in regular schools’ curricula. As British Film Institute’s creative director Heather Stewart recently commented, “The idea of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Films, Literatura, News
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cine, Education, films, Walter Benjamin
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Melancolía (2011)
Melancolía (Zentropa, 2011) es la más reciente aventura cinematográfica del director danés Lars von Trier. Como muchas de sus obras anteriores, esta última también ha generado una gran cantidad de crítica, mucha de ella negativa y, en ocasiones, hasta hostil … Continue reading
Posted in Films, Romanticism
Tagged Cine, films, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, romanticismo
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In Time (2011)
Noah Berlatsky is totally right, In Time (2011) wants to be a critique of capitalism but instead it ends up being a “searing satire of America’s utter inability to critique capitalism.” However, what Berlatsky fails to recognize is that the film … Continue reading
Posted in Evil, Films, Philosophy, Public Opinion
Tagged Benthamism, capitalism, Charles Dickens, films, George Orwell, In Time, Michael Niccol, Victorianism
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Margin Call (2011), or a Report on the Banality of Greed
So far, few movies have been as successful as J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011) in portraying the events of the 2008 economic crisis. In fact, the movie achieves something only a few among the best films in history have … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Evil, Films, Philosophy, Politics, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged films, filosofía, financial crisis, greed, Margin Call
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