spectacle
4 films tagged with “spectacle”
Network
Network opens with a firing and ends with an assassination, and everything in between is an experiment in measurement. Howard Beale is dismissed because his ratings have fallen; he announces on air that he will kill hims…
Rollerball
The premise of Rollerball sounds like a parable, and Jewison treats it like a procedural. In 2018, corporations have replaced governments, eliminated war, assigned populations to energy, food, transport and luxury conglo…
The Great Dictator
The resemblance that makes the film possible was not invented by Chaplin. Hitler was born four days after him, in the same spring of 1889, and by the early thirties had adopted a toothbrush moustache that the most recogn…
Safety Last!
The most famous image in silent cinema is a man hanging from a clock face twelve floors above Los Angeles, and it is usually remembered as a stunt. It is better understood as the last step in a chain of small, reasonable…