Writings on Film — Kyle Borg

WRITINGS ON FILM

Notes on The Anti-Film: A call to action (2021)

The Anti-Film is pro-film language.

Full Essay

Looking for Langston (1989, Directed by Isaac Julien)

A remarkable piece made with sensitivity, inspiring vision, and quiet contemplation of an undeterred, queer sub-society.

Thoughts

Pickpocket (1959, Directed by Robert Bresson)

The rising thrills and lasting follies of a want-to-be superman.

Thoughts

The Killer (2023, Directed by David Fincher)

A cynical view of a methodical professional hitman in a film that evokes and inverts reactions to stagnant genre tropes.

Thoughts

The Whale (2022, Directed By Darren Aronofsky)

Well, I feel emotionally ill.

Thoughts

Screenshot from Ikiru - 1952 — Ikiru (“To Live”, 1952, Directed By Akira Kurosawa)

The value of leading a life less ordinary.

Thoughts

Playground (2021, Directed by Laura Wandel)

Don’t you remember when you were this small?

Review

The Worst Person In the World (2021, Directed by Joachim Trier
)

Emancipation from self-doubt.

Thoughts

The Godfather: Part II (1974, Directed by Francis Ford Coppola)

When what you’ve been protecting all along becomes the very thing you decide to renounce.

Thoughts

The Godfather (1972, Directed by Francis Ford Coppola)

The screeches that block reasonable train of thought, which can help a man kill for his family, I assume are the same kind of screeches in the mind that trigger a man to betray family for personal gain. In that moment, if it is all said to be “just business”, and when can something be considered personal?

Thoughts

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Directed by Frank Capra)

The romanticised, patriotic battle between one righteous child-saving American versus the corrupt political systems rotting the very ideals America was ostensibly built on.

Thoughts

Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Directed by David Lean)

When you witness a man of action travel to a far away land and fight to unite and liberate a native people from their current national enemy, could you truthfully say that you came to know him well?

Review

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Lawrence Of Arabia - Review

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The Worst Person in the World - Thoughts

The Mirror Self Project

All works pertain to Kyle Borg, detailing his involvement and creation of photographic and filmic material, as well as created written works.

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