Matteo Pascale

Using the promotional flyer art for the 2015 film The Revenant, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio and was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It’s just an anchor point for not just visual reference for this written essay, which is being repackaged. This blog post has both nothing to do with and everything to do with what The Revenant represents in so many more ways. Not including The Revenant’s film title, but I just did. Joking aside, the film’s title really does not fit into this essay I...

Going through the collection of my own writings, found this week, on a somewhat forgotten thumb drive or a labeled flash drive. Basically, this drive was found tucked deep into my book and physical media shelf. As a tidbit, I plan on turning that shelf into a study—very much a part of my personal five-year plan. Lastly, on the topic of turning my shelf into a study, and the fact that I used the very phrase “five-year plan,” if reading that triggers you. Absolutely feel entitled to spew any ad...

Commonly used and referenced film review quotes on the internet of Close-Up: “The definitive film-on-film commentary.” - Ed Gonzalez, Slant “Neither a documentary nor a drama but a provocative, unconventional merging of the two, a meditation on perplexities of justice, social inequity, and personal identity that also subtly interrogates the processes and purposes of cinema.” - Godfrey Cheshire, Criterion Collection For a critically acclaimed film, Close-Up , directed by Abbas...