Movies We Texted About

5 days ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Carmen Paddock

Once again, Andor Season 2 moves one year later. When the clock rolls forward to BBY 2 at the start of Episode 7, Messenger, Cassian (Diego Luna) is on Yavin itself, working with organised and rapidly mobilising Rebel forces rather than just as the mercenary of Luthen (Stellan Skarsgard). Of course, he and Bix (Adria Arjona) could not stay on Coruscant after murdering Doctor Gorst (Joshua James) in a spectacular, satisfying win at the end of Episode 6, What a Festive Evening.

1 week ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Pedro Lima

During the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), cinema was a meaningful tool for propaganda and Soviet cultural identity development. As the USSR had a massive territorial length, each region would have a unique voice in its approach regarding filmmaking. Therefore, plenty of the productions from the Soviet period are not in the canonical thread in the film study. Armenian director Tamara Stepanyan tackles the history of local films through her documentary essay, My Armenian Phantoms.

1 week ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Pedro Lima

In 2021, the well-known director Stanley Nelson received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for his film Attica. The film uses archival footage to tell an untold story about the most significant uprising in the American criminal system. Nelson fills a crucial vacancy in American filmmaking. He tells vital stories about the living experience of the Black community in the United States.

1 week ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Pedro Lima

The grand Austrian director Michael Haneke famously stated, to paraphrase, that a film is 24 lies per second in service of the attempt to find the truth. In this sense, cinema is a mere representation of the reality. This conceptualization allows multiple directors to experiment with the understanding of the verity. The respected Chinese author Lou Ye, known for Suzhou River, Summer Palace, and Spring Fever, presents the thin line between fiction and documentary in film.

1 week ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Pedro Lima

The sophomore effort in the Napo River (Toroboro) in Manolo Sarmiento’s diptych about the local communities is La Consulta Popular, or The People’s Referendum. He focuses on the political aspect of the situation. With this film, he shifts his lenses to the isolated tribes, who decided to continue far from the big cities. The Napo River was Spain’s possession for three hundred years. The communities resisted colonization, settlement, and violence.