Tag: Noah Baumbach
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White Noise Ending Explained: All Plots Tend To Move Deathward
In Don DeLillo’s pivotal postmodern classic, “White Noise,” professor Jack Gladney contemplates the inevitability of death, musing, “All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots … We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are…
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‘Creative Control’ Promises That Sexual Mediocrity Will Outlive the A.I. Revolution
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.The…
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Past Lives review – a must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities
Celine Song’s feature debut about two people whose lives intertwine again after years apart is delicate and sophisticated, but also simple and directThis heart-meltingly romantic and sad movie from Korean-Canadian dramatist and filmmaker Celine Song left me wrung out and empty and weirdly euphoric, as if I’d lived through an 18-month affair in the course…