HeyJaredCelebrating Cinema
From cult classics to today’s popular movies, Celebrating Cinema, from Amsterdam’s LAB111, explores the films that shape how we see the world.
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Manufacturing Consent: How 9/11 Changed Hollywood (opens the original)
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How did 9/11 change Hollywood and when does entertainment become propaganda? Marking 25 years since 9/11 and coinciding with LAB111’s Manufacturing Consent programme, Elliot Bloom and film critic Hugo Emmerzael trace cinema’s long relationship with propaganda and political power. From revolutionary montage and The Battle of Algiers to Black Hawk Down , Zero Dark Thirty and Iron Man , they look at how wars are sold, enemies invented and ideology turned into entertainment. At the centre of the con
Did Terminator 2 Ruin How We Imagine The End Of The World? (opens the original)
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Thirty-five years after Terminator 2: Judgment Day , cinema is still imagining the end of the world through killer machines, nuclear war, viruses and alien invasions. But did one of the greatest blockbusters ever made teach us to imagine the apocalypse all wrong? With Terminator 2 returning to our screens in 4K, producer Elliot Bloom and filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus ask why cinema is so obsessed with watching the world end and why Hollywood tends to make collapse so spectacular. Through Children
Why Is Cinema Just Like My Mother? (opens the original)
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“My mother and cinema are my two teachers in life, each in their own peculiar ways.” Filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus and producer Elliot Bloom explore the parallels between these two teachers: the women who raise us, and the films that show us how to live, love and understand the world. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary and re-release of Cría Cuervos , they look at a series of films from the 1970s — including Carrie , The Exorcist and Grey Gardens — in which the relationship between mothers and d
Cine Of The Times: Did No Country For Old Men Predict Trump’s America? (opens the original)
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In 2007, the Coen Brothers made a thriller set in 1980 that somehow captured an American dread that hadn't fully arrived yet. Critic Hugo Emmerzael and academic Dan Hassler-Forest return to No Country for Old Men — the coin toss, the deaths that happen offscreen, the sheriff who solves nothing — to ask how a film everybody already loves quietly called the next twenty years. Hugo and Dan get into the film's nihilism, its collapse of the Western hero and detective who restores order, and the stran
Can Cinema Teach Us How to Pay Attention? — What Playtime, Ikiru & After Hours Asks Of Us (opens the original)
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We’re constantly told to slow down and be present, but what does it actually mean to pay attention when so much of modern life is designed to scatter it? This summer, French auteur Jacques Tati returns to LAB111 in six newly restored 4K classics, including his magnum opus PlayTime . Few filmmakers have looked at modern life with Tati’s comic precision: traffic becomes choreography, bureaucracy becomes absurd theatre and the city itself becomes a machine for distraction. Producer Elliot Bloom and
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