HeyJaredGROSS - cinema history and criticism
A materialist critique of the immaterial joys of the cinema and a chronological journey through the biggest movies of all time.
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GROSS EXTRAS - geopolitics, not trauma - The Long Good Friday (opens the original)
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GROSS DISTRACTION - for the 80th anniversary of David Lean’s Brief Encounter (opens the original)
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Some of my reviews are for paying subscribers (I actually have some paying subscribers. Thank you, friends! You can join them for half price if you’d like to). The free reviews are all, by the way, on Letterboxd, for you hipsters.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Koqa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F364747ae-c002-4f0f-880d-0f7505c3f4bb_720x72
GROSS/66 1975 - Jaws - Spielberg’s suburban Moby Dick (opens the original)
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GROSS/30 1939 - Gone With The Wind - a Confederate monument (opens the original)
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GROSS/15 1927 Napoléon - You will not remember the order of events but you will be in awe throughout (opens the original)
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