9takes | Thomas Hässler | Substack

To analyse means to watch again. To turn a largely «unconscious» process into a «conscious» one. To recognise, comprehend, describe and interpret

Thomas Hässler

Seeing film as an art form requires that we become aware why a movie is the way it is, and not another. At the core of the matter is choice.

Thomas Hässler

Mar 14

Released 30 years ago, Gere, Basinger and Thurman could've made the perfect casting couch, but we were not ready for that conversation

Thomas Hässler

Mar 8

Michael Fassbender big-screen debut! Doesn't that count for something? Ahu! Ahu! Ahu! (See? I brought better sub-headlines than you)

Thomas Hässler

Mar 4

These kids are in big trouble. No sequel looms over the horizon with such an anemic performance and reception in its first-run

Thomas Hässler

Feb 26

Or how Netflix inflates viewership data to fool you

Thomas Hässler

Feb 21

Laughing all over its way to the bank and at its detractors, its massive commercial success "proved" one thing: No incel revolution happened

Thomas Hässler

Feb 18

Like a mild Greek tragedy, writers can sometimes be cruel like the gods, even in a movie that it's supposed to feel good

Thomas Hässler

Feb 16

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