Cinema friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What makes a movie? Is it the sum of its parts\u2014story, performance, social commentary, audio, visual, on and on, ad nauseum, etcetera? Do these pieces even form anything without an audience, a reception, a reaction? We could tease out a cinematic epistemology, or we could lead with cynicism. What makes a movie? People with a lot of money make a movie.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps it's an aging titan of industry wishing, in spite of personal fortune, to leave a public legacy. Buy a story, buy an iconoclastic director, buy some star power\u2014buy the best and it ought to make a pretty good movie. This is\u00a0Official Competition<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Spanish-Argentinian duo Mariano Cohn and Gast\u00f3n Duprat skewer the insincerity, pretension, and egomania of prestige cinema to outrageous effect\u2014all while making a pretty prestigious picture themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Money in, movie out<\/em>\u00a0might be right, but let\u2019s look to a movie without much money. Finally emerging from the fog of 2020 after two years on the festival circuit, Olivia Peace\u2019s microbudget debut\u00a0Tahara<\/em><\/a>\u00a0proves that sincerity doesn\u2019t require ample cash. A story about the swirling confusion following a kiss between two Hebrew school girls, the film finds authenticity between scenes of catty teen angst, animation, and aspect-ratio shattering inventiveness. Universal in its honesty and refreshing in its representation,\u00a0Tahara<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is a welcome entry into the burgeoning Bisexual Jewish Funeral Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We laugh to keep from crying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cinema friends, What makes a movie? Is it the sum of its parts\u2014story, performance, social commentary, audio, visual, on and on, ad nauseum, etcetera? Do these pieces even form anything without an audience, a reception, a reaction? We could tease out a cinematic epistemology, or we could lead with cynicism. What makes a movie? People with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-from"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11062,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}