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Movie poster: Remedial Reading Comprehension (1970)
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Remedial Reading Comprehension

1970 · 5 min
4.2 / 10 · TMDB

Landow rejects the dream imagery of the historical trance film for the self-referential present, using macrobiotics, the language of advertising, and a speed-reading test on the definition of hokum. The alienated filmmaker appears, running uphill to distance himself from the lyrical cinema, but remember, "This is a film about you, not about its maker."

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Year 1970
Country United States of America
Director Owen Land
Runtime 5 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.2/10 (19 votes)

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Landow constructs the film as a formal exercise, relying on the collision of textual fragments, advertising vernacular, and a deconstruction of cinematic lyricism. It explores the viewer's own role in parsing meaning from a barrage of mediated signals.

What lingers after is the provocative idea that the medium itself is under examination, not just the images it displays. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Owen Land

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