Arabic Numeral Series 6
“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”
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“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”
The Big Lebowski
7.8Tomorrow Never Dies
6.4Mean Girls 2
5.2Apur Sansar
8.1Donnie Brasco
7.5Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
6.2Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
6.3The Ides of March
6.7Chappie
6.8The Hateful Eight
7.8Hugo
7.2Die Hard: With a Vengeance
7.3Wild Strawberries
8.1Ex Machina
7.6Casino Royale
5.3Blade: Trinity
5.9Young Frankenstein
7.9The Mission
7.4Running Scared
7.0Ocean's Thirteen
6.7