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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt 2023
Raven Jackson mentioned in the in-person Q&A that she tried to find the slant rhymes between each moment and scene, referencing her background in written poetry. As the river’s stream washes Mack’s hand in mud, memories and sensations drift along with it. By flattening the dimensions of time, Jackson’s debut All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt renders memory as the looseness of the past, present and future washing over us at once. Back and forth between childhood and adulthood, the…
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Decalogue I 1989
In the midst of all of the ethical and emotional puzzles Kieslowski carefully portrayed, he was a man who felt intensely. So intensely that his filmmaking life brought him from political advocacy to revealing emotional truths. No matter if we met the love of our life or found the career path set for us from birth, Kieslowski dove so deep into the everyday workings of chance. He found his characters at points in their lives where chance is the only…
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Divinity 2023
As Steven Soderbergh said in the Q&A, Eddie Alcazar made a thing, and it is nuts. From a stop-motion fight scene, horny infomercials advertising immortality, woozy dream sequences, all the way to body horror, Divinity is so much movie packed in just under 90 minutes. It’s a horny nightmare about the commodification of all things living, and the meaning to life is just to live forever. Moisés Arias kills it as always.
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Violet Evergarden: The Movie 2020
Kyoto Animation loves literature, poetry, filmmaking, animation, music and everything in between. But most importantly, they are entirely in love with love itself.
