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Babette’s Feast

1987 was not so long ago, but technological development has unleashed such rapid change that the Danish film, Babette's Feast, seems to depict an era so far removed from the contemporary world as to be as likely as a

High Life

Some of the best neo-Luddite films were made in the 1980's, but maybe the best film about the neo-Luddite worldview was made about the 1980's. High Life tells a tale of young men dissatisfied with the rise of the

Fight Club

Fight Club may be the most important film of the second half of the twentieth century. Granted, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton give it blockbuster status, and Helena Bohnam Carter adds the credibility without which this film might otherwise

Office Space

The ugliness and inescapability of life in our contemporary age of mediocrity, ennui, dissatisfaction, annoyance, and overcrowding is expressed with comic brilliance in Office Space. While films like Fight Club sustain the raw human emotion that our modern world

American Beauty

Pain. That seems to be the underlying theme of all pop culture artifacts. Songs, books, films, pastimes--they all seem to involve pain.... The pain of loss, of want, of need, of frustration, of deprivation, of injustice, of betrayal--all these

His Clouds Are Made from Cornstarch

In collaboration with Groowinky.com, Luddite Online will begin providing access to original films and reflections about the growing atmosphere of depersonalized, nihilistic, tech-heavy absurdity as the corporate takeover of planet Earth continues apace, unchecked, unregulated, and with apparently no end

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