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Can the Male Still Gaze?

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I Watched MAGA's Favorite Movie

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Every Christopher Nolan Movie Ends the Same

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Mediocre Movies That Changed My Life

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Cormac McCarthy's Most Profound Story

Start your free month of great cinema now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold Film availability varies by country About 2 years ago, I was reading Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing when I came across a tale about a heretic, a priest, and the meaning of life that stopped me dead in my tracks, and that I've been trying to untangle ever since. This is that story. Films featured: Train Dreams, First Reformed, Winter Light, The Tree of Life, Silence, A Hidden Life, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford & To the Wonder. 0:00 What was here to be found. 2:26 His name was Robert

McCarthy's Greatest, Terrible Book is Becoming a Movie, What Will It Look Like?

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Do I use AI? What's my Process? Movies I've Seen the Most? | 1.000.000 Subscriber Q&A

The 1.000.000 Subscriber Q&A: 0:00 Introduction 0:52 Why switch from faceless to on-camera? 3:30 What is your creative process? 6:36 Do you use AI? 9:48 Speedround 1 11:15 Why do you hold your mic in your hand? 13:13 Does being a critic affect how you watch movies? 15:01 Videos your most proud of? 16:45 Speedround 2 19:03 How do you balance philsophy with emotion? 20:03 What books do you read? 21:18 Do you read other people's opinions before a movie? 22:42 Thoughts on rating movies with numbers? 23:24 What other critics do you follow? 24:22 Speedround 3 28:11 What's your academic background? 2

America's Most Misunderstood Filmmaker

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When a Woman Makes a Movie About Men

Start your free month of great cinema now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold FIRST COW and THE MASTERMIND are available on MUBI in selected territories: (Global) Australia, India Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, UK, Ireland, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, France, Canada It is astounding what a loving gaze reveals about masculinity. Looking at men as objects of inherent beauty and passion, there emerges a different story about who they are, and about the tragedy they're suffering in an increasingly cruel world - a thorough look at Claire Denis' Beau Travail. 0:00 On

The Best Movies of 2025

Get Displate's premium metal posters with up to 40% off by using the code STORIES at https://displate.com/l/stories We're nearing the end of 2025, which means it's time to reflect back on another year of cinema, and discuss my favorite movies. 0:00 Eternity 3:11 Intro + Honorable Mentions 4:42 No Other Choice 6:57 Honorable Mentions 2 7:31 Roofman 9:28 Honorable Mentions 3 9:50 If I Had Legs I’d Kick You 11:52 Sorry, Baby 13:44 Train Dreams 16:09 The Cannes Corner 16:45 Sentimental Value 18:05 Splitsville 19:31 Honorable Mentions 4 20:28 Promising Movies I Haven’t Seen Yet 21:35 Honorable Men

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025

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Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore

Start your free month of great cinema now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold Why don't movies feel "real" anymore? A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: on perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia. 0:00 Movies don't feel "real" anymore 1:40 Perceptual Realism 8:40 The "Cinematic Look" 12:50 Indexicality 15:50 Haptic Visuality 23:00 Cinematic Qualia 26:29 Contextual Intentionality Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-why-movies-just-dont-feel-real-anymore Watch Patrick Tomasso's video "Why don't movies loo

We've Forgotten how to Travel

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I Read "No Country for Old Men", Here's What the Movie Didn't Tell You:

Check out my 2nd channel: @LikeStoriesUntold Join my Patreon film club: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld A comparison between Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and its movie adaptation by the Coen brothers 0:00 a faithful adaptation? 0:53 the missing hitchhiker story 3:02 Llewelyn's tragic ending 4:02 Carla Jean's confrontation with Chigurh 5:56 sheriff Bell's missing backstory 8:09 a character-revealing confession 10:25 sheriff Bell's father 11:47 final dream meaning 13:56 a positive symbiosis 16:14 2nd channel news! Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/

Movie Monologues that Radicalized my Moral Philosophy

Start your free month of great cinema now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold To act in this world is to put yourself in moral peril, to shake the foundations of your own philosophy, sometimes overwhelmingly so. In such times, when you're no longer sure which way is right, where do you go? Who do you become? 0:00 In Pursuit of the Good 3:12 Virtue Ethics 5:02 Deontological Ethics 7:42 Not a Resolution, but a Problem Definition 10:34 Consequentialist Ethics 13:47 A Problem of Metaphysics 18:04 Putting Your Soul at Hazard Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-mov

When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie

Start your free month of great cinema now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold How David Fincher gets under your skin. 0:00 Introduction: Two Movies, Same Story 2:42 I. Perverted Human Desire 6:30 II. Visualizing the Desire: The Gaze 11:27 III. Sustaining the Desire: Jouissance 17:51 IV. Confronting the Void: the Real 24:35 Epilogue: Living with Desire Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-when-2-filmmakers-make-the-same-movie -- SUPPORT MY WORK -- Nebula: https://nebula.tv/lsoo Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: http