“One hundred years ago on the 21st of April, out in the waters around Spivey Point, a small clipper ship drew toward land...”
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Always 1989
115/200
It's admirable in theory that though what Spielberg clearly wanted to do was make His Girl Friday or Only Angels Have Wings, he settled for a movie nobody remembered to avoid being pilloried for hubris. Of course he was rewarded with a film as forgotten as A Guy Named Joe. Still pretty stunning that there's a film in the corpus of Mr. Movies himself that is basically completely forgotten. I was watching a pirated Oscar stream for a…
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989
170/200
It's the way the light changes as it moves through a whiskey glass and becomes a shadow on a table. Father and son having a petty squabble,
'boys will be boys' nonsense, and then suddenly it's a reckoning with two childhoods that never ended. Henry Jones Sr. retreated into books and legends to escape the fact that life took his wife from him and saddled him with a kid who'd rather be outdoors than inside studying, though he…
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Moonage Daydream 2022
97/200
Someday someone will make a movie about David Bowie that doesn’t obfuscate his actual achievements and rely on the very literal language of myth but uhh today’s not that day. Stupefyingly unimaginative, this uses footage from movies starring Bowie (footage with one set of specific intentions) and footage of movies Bowie probably watched (with a completely different set of intentions at best tangentially related to what Bowie got out of them, at worst horrifically literal interpretations of what Bowie…