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Hace 6 días · Novelist Julian Barnes once wrote, “Art belongs to everybody and nobody.” That’s been the blessing and curse of the Wachowski sisters, who introduced “the red pill” in The Matrix as a symbol of personal liberation from oppression, and have since found themselves defending it from alt-right appropriation.. Lilly and Lana Wachowski, who co-wrote and directed the film, are transgender ...
Hace 6 días · If you grew up as a Millennial egg, there was something deeply special about communing with the films of the Wachowskis in the pre-trans tipping point years.From the original Matrix trilogy to the much-maligned Speed Racer to the neo-noir classic Bound, the Wachowski sisters’ output felt like it spoke to us, and it’s no wonder why.Even before most of us—including Lilly and Lana ...
18 de jun. de 2024 · It’s tempting to reinscribe an essentialist reading, and see Bound as a trans film now because it was made by trans filmmakers. Or we could think of transness in cinema a little more expansively. In his book Lana and Lilly Wachowski, Cáel M. Keegan suggests that we read Bound as an “invitation to sense differently.” Which is a part of the trans experience—we feel a truth via the body ...
17 de jun. de 2024 · At the time, a crime thriller with lesbian leads directed by people who were then presenting as cis simply seemed, at best, novel. With the benefit of their careers behind us, of course, Bound has ...
Hace 2 días · Matrix Resurrections, dirigida en solitario por Lana Wachowski, no logró captar el mismo entusiasmo que sus predecesoras. Estrenada en 2021, en plena pandemia, la película recaudó solo 157,3 millones de dólares, una cifra decepcionante para una licencia tan prestigiosa, convirtiéndose en un sonoro fracaso y en otra víctima de la política de Warner y los estrenos simultáneos en HBO Max.
Hace 1 día · Key Takeaways: – Keanu Reeves is open to signing up for The Matrix 5 under one condition. – Reeves insists that Lana Wachowski must be part of the film's creative team. – Drew Goddard, the writer behind The Martian, intriguingly proposes a fresh direction for the franchise. – The recent instalment of the series experienced a $159 million loss.
14 de jun. de 2024 · Review: Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s ‘Bound’ on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray. This is an erotic thriller where eroticism is the agent of redemption, not damnation. Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s Bound, their low-budget neo-noir debut feature from 1996, is both an outlier in a filmography subsequently defined by high-concept science fiction and an ...
