Archive - Thomas Flight - Field Notes

On The Complicated Power of War Photography - Part 2

A continuation of my examination of Alex Garland's messily provocative Civil War.

Apr 14

Civil War - On The Complicated Power of War Photography

How Alex Garland's misunderstanding of the nature of images results in a provocative mess.

Apr 14

March 2024

Review: Perfect Days

Wim Wenders' quietly radical movie about a toilet cleaner.

Mar 12

It's not video. On AI "video" and post-cinema.

From cinematic Tik Toks to AI filmmaking.

Mar 4

February 2024

Refusing To Look: The Zone of Interest

A Meditation on Darkness

Feb 23

January 2024

The Curse is a Masterpiece of Art House TV

Holding a Distorted Mirror Up To Modern Media

Jan 29

Dreaming of the Apocalypse

Notes on "Leave The World Behind" and Apocalypse Media

Jan 3

December 2023

The (Objectively) Best Movies of 2023

Thomas Flight’s Totally Objective and Scientifically Rigorous List of The Top 10 Best Movies of 2023™

Dec 27, 2023

October 2023

Watching the greatest living director contemplate his own legacy

Martin Scorsese on Life, Art, and Cinema.

Oct 18, 2023

May 2023

Metamodernism at the Movies

Can postmodern deconstruction and modernist optimism coexist?

May 23, 2023

April 2023

Long Live The New Flesh

Videodrome and the Cyborg Revolution.

Apr 17, 2023

October 2022

The Unsettling Power of Sonic Ambiguity

Let's Talk About Kevin.

Oct 31, 2022

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