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Saturday, September 14, 2019

‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ and the ’60s Filmic Simulation

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Joan Didion wrote in her book of essays White Album (1979): “Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Theory about Cliff Booth in Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood"

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Did Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 's Cliff Booth really kill his wife? Quentin Tarantino's 9th film largely ties things up quite ...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

"Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties" by Tom O'Neill

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There's at least two 'points' to the story of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood . The first is stopping the murder of Sharon Tat...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Helter Skelter vs Chaos: Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

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Joan Didion famously said that the Sixties ended on August 9, 1969, with the murders of Sharon Tate and six others at the hands of the so-...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, self-referential with a gigantic heart behind it

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Tarantino’s latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood feels more focused on the adventures of fading TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCap...
Monday, August 05, 2019

Tarantino's self-critique in "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood", Kate Bosworth to play Sharon Tate

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Rick Dalton's existential crisis is first set off when the agent Marvin Schwarz (Al Pacino) tells him that his streak of playing vill...
Friday, August 02, 2019

Transgressive as hell: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Hippie Trip

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There's no way the LSD-drug culture of the hippies in the 60s didn't lead to the cultural downfall in the U.S. Prior to that, the...