I had been waiting to see this for half a decade,
straight up, and it definitely did not disappoint.
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Johnny Corncob 1973
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Capone 2020
Clinical experimentation, which is what I should have expected from Trank — a filmmaker clearly not being given enough credit — at this point, but it caught me off guard nonetheless. The comparisons to Gotti (of which this is essentially an opposite), et cetera, simply had me prepared for an entirely different, and altogether much more by-the-books experience. I was not expecting a bizarro, fractured, absurd, genuinely terrifying, purposefully off-putting and deeply, deeply sad study of a haunted psyche.
Capone…
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Lions in the Corner 2019
Easily one of, if not the strongest of the SXSW shorts;
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Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business 2020
Absolutely fucking fantastic;
my father would've loved this. -
Inception 2010
I don’t dislike Nolan, not at all, but I might consider this the great film so many others do if the characters closed their mouths every once in a while. Still, just like with The Prestige, Dunkirk and Memento, the editing is, in my eyes, excellent. I think I’ll give The Prestige, my favorite of his films, a re-watch soon — before Tenet, for which I’m honestly pretty stoked.
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Ema 2019
All of the colors of the rainbow, coming together in pitch dark — a reflection of ink in the face of an aurora borealis. Heartbreaking, investigational, and invigorating. Not one to miss, or necessarily even “understand,” but one to feel on a deep, internal level; the coal black fire of the soul heating a disco of death and rebirth.