<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/feed.xslt.xml"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/tag/creator-oliverstone.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><updated>2026-05-25T21:51:17+01:00</updated><id>https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/tag/creator-oliverstone.xml</id><title type="html">Ephemera of Vision | Tag</title><subtitle>This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision. </subtitle><author><name>somini</name></author><entry><title type="html">Born on the Fourth of July</title><link href="https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/2026/04/18/born-on-the-fourth-of-july.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Born on the Fourth of July"/><published>2026-04-18T00:00:00+01:00</published><updated>2026-04-18T00:00:00+01:00</updated><id>https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/2026/04/18/born-on-the-fourth-of-july</id><author><name>somini</name></author><category term="creator:OliverStone"/><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Seeing this now feels like unearthing the Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus, it’s so removed from the current reality, from all sides. But it even works as a pure drama, coming back home to meet the parents packs some extremely emotional punches.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">JFK</title><link href="https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/2025/01/11/jfk.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="JFK"/><published>2025-01-11T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-01-11T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/2025/01/11/jfk</id><author><name>somini</name></author><category term="creator:OliverStone"/><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This is a squeaky fucking clean Hollywood film, about as left wing as morally possible in America: the f-word (fascism) is dropped only once in the final monologue.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Savages</title><link href="https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/2023/06/12/savages.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Savages"/><published>2023-06-12T00:00:00+01:00</published><updated>2023-06-12T00:00:00+01:00</updated><id>https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/2023/06/12/savages</id><author><name>somini</name></author><category term="creator:OliverStone"/><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sicario, if Emily Blunt was actually working for the competition, split into random veteran, random surfer dude, and random trust fund valley girl. Did Oliver Stone took out most political references in exchange for the budget for shootouts?]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Snowden</title><link href="https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/2019/03/27/snowden.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Snowden"/><published>2019-03-27T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2019-03-27T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://movingpictures.somini.xyz/2019/03/27/snowden</id><author><name>somini</name></author><category term="beltway"/><category term="creator:OliverStone"/><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A pointless film since Citizenfour exists. Boils down to a study on Snowden’s sex life.]]></summary></entry></feed>