The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.GoldenEye (1995)A boxy, European sports car races through the medieval street-layout of Paris in pursuit of "The Package." A hacker using a black, plastic-heavy Thinkpad laptop connects to "The Uplink" via cellular phone while sitting on a Eurostar train speeding from London to Brussels. A puffy-jacketed secret agent trying to look inconspicuous exchanges grainy photographs of "The Target" with their "Handler" in Berlin’s bustling Alexanderplatz square. Meanwhile, in some nondescript, Crt-clad control center, green dots mark everyone’s position on an oversized map.What do these characterizations, so specific to a certain time in moviemaking, have in common? Call it Nokiawave, a term first coined by David Rudnick while tracing tropes across American action movies. Across a non-conclusive set of films—amongst them GoldenEye (1995), Mission: Impossible (1996), Ronin (1998), and the first...
- 10/14/2021
- MUBI
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