I am giddy. I picked up the Dark Sky Films 4K Blu-Ray restoration a few months ago and have been waiting for the right night to see it. Tonight was the night.
What an epic and beautiful opening, and it looks SO good on the 4K. Those sunbaked corpses frying in the Texas sun. So gorgeous. That amazing wide angle shot when the gang picks up the hitchhiker, which looks a lot like a scene in Little Miss Sunshine. Theβ¦
The Criterion Challenge 2023: Heartbreak Heaven: Films to Watch When Youβre Questioning Love
"That's not her. That's only her in a movie. A long time ago . . . "
I grew up seeing this film around the family home, either out by the TV or tucked away in the DVD shelf. Its title perplexed me as a kid. Do they know that Paris is in France and not Texas? What's theβ¦
The 8th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2022-23: LSC Family Week
Perfection. May Way for Tomorrow is like It's A Wonderful Life's depressing grandfather. It's bewildering that Leo McCarey could release something so dark during Hays Code. Orson Welles said that this movie could make a stone cry. I agree. I am so in my feels right now, but so deeply moved.
The film that inspired Tokyo Story deserves to be seen by all.
"When they get olderβ¦
The 8th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2022-23: Voices of Argentina Week
That opening shot of the voluptuous peppers wilting in the sun hooked me. The mother grasping for a cocktail, trembling from some sort of nutritional imbalance. Or dehydration. Or being tipsy. Or all the above.
La CiΓ©naga lies somewhere in between the plane of Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, and Harmony Korine's Gummo. While I sometimes struggled with the lack of clear narrative, the cinΓ©ma vΓ©ritΓ© style shootingβ¦
Unclear how many people would be present for a midnight screening of this highly anticipated sequel, my sister and I trekked up to Chicago's Regal City North late Saturday night. Our Lyft driver's Iron Man bobblehead got me thinking about the phenomenon of Marvel, how far and wide the comic book characters reach and affect different people. Superhero movies aren't my favorite genre, but I like to keep up with them because they are a great point of connection toβ¦
The film ends and the theater is silent. No one immediately stands up to leave. There is a collective air of "What the actual fuck just happened?"
When movies end like this, I always know I've seen something extraordinary. Sometimes the extraordinary is pretentious try hard material, but most often it is breathtaking, original art.
The latter is the case with The Green Knight. I had no idea what happened after my second post-lockdown theater experience, and needed a solidβ¦
