>>Nostalgia For Infinity

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I was sent a t-shirt along with my review copy of Lunopolis upon which were printed the words “There are people on the moon. They are from the future. And they run our government.” This is a remarkably concise précis of the plot of this oddball film, and further a useful indicator of its serious style.

It’s a strange fish, it really is. It mixes the shakycam style of JJ Abrams’ Cloverfield (and umpteen other naturalistic films of that style post-Blair Witch Project), the talking heads expert opinion/interview approach of District 9 married to the educational style of a made-for-TV documentary, and the subject matter of fare like The X-Files and the interest in fake-moon-landing and MJ12-style conspiracy theories that exploded into popularity contemporaneously with that show. Stylistically its influences are more recent than its thoroughly 90s thematic material, but style always did go out of fashion quicker than substance. Overall it’s an an odd mish-mash of techniques and these components do work quite well.

The film stumbles a little in how it integrates these disparate styles, tending to clump them together. The film opens with an exciting fifteen minute exploration by independent filmmakers and conspiracy chasers Matt and Sonny (director Matthew Avant and producer Hal Mayor playing almost-themselves) of what appears to be a hidden underground base. It’s a thrilling sequence that sets the mood well. Subsequently the talking heads begin to pop up, alongside scenes where Matt and Sonny dabble with an odd device retrieved from the base and experience run-ins with a mysterious and intimidating group of G-men. The pace is maintained well enough here, too, with the growing sense of mystery proving compelling.

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Whoops, apparently I have neglected to post these for the past few weeks. Sorry!

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Del.icio.us links for September 14th through September 19th. Delicious.com or my Chrome plugin seem to be struggling lately – I’m getting a lot of bookmarks listed as “500 Internal Server Error”. Anyone else seeing this? Oh well, here’s a couple of things I had time to read this week.

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