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5 films tagged with “data”
Citizenfour
The film opens with text on a black screen and a voice reading it: instructions for staying alive. Assume that your adversary is capable of a trillion guesses per second. Use a machine that has never touched the network.…
The Lives of Others
Wiesler is the best at what he does, and the film establishes this before it establishes anything else. In a lecture hall at the Stasi academy he explains, with the unhurried patience of a man describing a craft he has f…
All the President's Men
The film's real subject is a method, and the method is stated once, almost in passing. In a conspiracy like this, you build from the outer edges in. Nobody in the Washington Post newsroom has access to the centre, so the…
The Conversation
Harry Caul is one of cinema's great craftsmen, and like most great craftsmen he has drawn a very precise line around what his craft includes. He builds his own equipment. He knows which microphone to point at a moving ta…
Rashomon
Rashomon gave English a word for the thing it describes. The Rashomon effect is what happens when several witnesses to the same event produce accounts that cannot all be true, and no one among them is lying in the ordina…