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Reconstructivist Art: The Princess Bride

September 25, 2017September 27, 2017 Chris SunamiArt

to reawaken a sense of the Real in a world where everything has been demonstrated to be an illusion

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Image by Serena Kuo

The New Black Cinema: Moonlight

March 23, 2017March 22, 2017 Chris SunamiBest

My wife had one major concern going into Moonlight.  “Is it going to be ‘gay Precious‘?” For the record, I was a fan of Precious, the Oscar nominated story of an obese black teenager who[…]

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image by Deborah Pino Solis

Across the Universe

February 9, 2017February 8, 2017 Chris SunamiArt

In honor of the film’s tenth anniversary, a repost from 2007. Julie Taymor is one of my artistic heroes, and the Beatles are the Beatles, so I had high hopes going into this film. Of[…]

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image by Erol Osman

The Trouble with Tarantino

January 19, 2017January 21, 2017 Chris SunamiIdentity

The trouble with Quentin Tarantino, an unquestionably brilliant and iconoclastic director, is that there’s often a regressive undertone to his superficially progressive imagery. A self-proclaimed champion of the underdog, his brand of empowerment rarely comes[…]

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I’m Not There

September 1, 2016August 31, 2016 Chris SunamiMovies

Reposted from 2007 I knew even before the house lights went down that I needed to approach this film in the right frame of mind. I knew not to expect a rational or linear plotline,[…]

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Synecdoche, New York

May 26, 2016May 26, 2016 Chris SunamiFractals

Originally posted in 2008. Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut is a fractal hallucination. I’ve been a fan of Charlie Kaufman for years, and it’s been interesting to see how his work transforms under the guidance of[…]

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Chi-Raq and the New Black Cinema

May 5, 2016May 4, 2016 Chris SunamiHumor

Spike Lee’s “joints” (films) are often equal parts brilliant and problematic. The auteur of one of the greatest of all American films, Do The Right Thing, Lee has also been responsible for a host of[…]

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Image by Ryan Valle

Star Wars: The Force vs. The Force Awakens

April 14, 2016April 13, 2016 Chris SunamiMovies

Third in a series comparing and contrasting the original Star Wars trilogy with the newest movie, The Force Awakens Perhaps the biggest point of weakness for The Force Awakens, as compared to the predecessor it[…]

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Image by Eddie Holly

DOPE and the New Black Cinema

April 7, 2016April 6, 2016 Chris SunamiHumor

When President Obama was elected for the first time in 2008, it had a psychological impact on the black American community independent of any of his policies or official acts. Here was someone succeeding publicly[…]

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by Evan Attard

Star Wars: The Good Stormtrooper

February 17, 2016February 15, 2016 Chris SunamiMovies

Part of a series comparing and contrasting the new movie (The Force Awakens) with the original trilogy: One of the things that made the original Star Wars movie, “A New Hope,” so compelling was that[…]

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