Showbiz: Amateur Adventures in Film Studies

This week we notice ambiguous sex scenes, chemistry, and something the internet seemed to miss in Je, tu, il, elle.

This week we do a bit of noticing about cool camera techniques, Robespierre revisionism, and that everyone agrees Napoleon and Josephine were wack (not wiggity wack... just regular) in Napoleon (1927).

This week we do a bit of noticing of visual motifs and lateral career moves in the brilliant The Crowd (1928).

This week we do a bit of noticing about social commentary in film, the trouble with satire, and that Wolverine and Sabre-tooth really, really need to just bone down...

We do a bit of noticing of bias, propaganda, and interrupted sleep in The Hour of the Furnaces.

We do a bit of noticing about the famously racist director of Birth of a Nation making a movie about intolerance in a movie that was seemingly a million dollar attempt to take his ball and go home. Also, the Oscars were a thing.