Paul Verhoeven's genre films are the best political satires of their respective decades FI film-discussion · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 14d ago 10 27
The Severan dynasty and the transformation of Roman imperial culture AN ancient-history · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 16d ago 3 6
Alfonso Cuarón's continuous take cinematography serves completely different functions in Children of Men vs Gravity FI film-discussion · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 21d ago 30 304
Cheap multimeter teardown: what you get for $10 DI diy-electronics · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 23d ago 8 400
Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire deserved every award it was eligible for medium.com/@author/great-article-abc123 FI film-discussion · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 24d ago 26 384
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell: historical fiction done by a novelist, not an archivist BO book-club · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 26d ago 2 448
Vertigo's 4K restoration actually revealed some optical flaws that weren't visible in older prints FI film-discussion · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 1mo ago 2 51
Midsommar works better as a breakup film than as a horror film news.example.com/article/123 FI film-discussion · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 1mo ago 8 158
The Vandals in North Africa: an underexplored chapter of late Roman history AN ancient-history · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 1mo ago 40 152
No Country for Old Men is a Western that's also a meditation on the limits of law enforcement FI film-discussion · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 2mo ago 0 11
The Master is the most challenging and rewarding PTA film for people willing to sit with ambiguity FI film-discussion · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 2mo ago 0 428
The opening sequence of a film is a contract with the audience — which films break that contract intentionally? FI film-discussion · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 2mo ago 43 339
Bong Joon-ho's genre-blending is so fluid that genre labels become meaningless by the second act FI film-discussion · @copperhawk280 ✦ · 2mo ago 0 4