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Knock at the Cabin 2023
Above all else, Shyamalan is a master of spatial relations: a value Hollywood mostly left wayside after its classical period. Still, his charting of interiors is anything but classical. He’s not indebted to removed or consistent camera placements. Despite most of its runtime unfolding with its protagonists tied to chairs, this is a movie packed with movement. Movement is how Shyamalan maps space. There’s a scene where Wen’s creeping across the basement. Shyamalan cuts upstairs to a bathroom dialogue, the…
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The Rape of the Vampire 1968
Rollin's first feature is actually two incongruous shorter works awkwardly conjoined into one. Still, it's satisfying to see his filmography hatch with all his signature fixations fully-formed: sexy vampires, gothic chateau romps, fragmented memories masking past traumas, extreme-close-ups of lips, Rollin’s favourite beach, etc. Formally, this bears unexpected influence from French New Wave filmmaking, complete with jagged cuts and scrambled spatio-temporal relations. (This is striking because Rollin's later work seems largely disinterested in his contemporaries. If anything, he seems to…
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Burn After Reading 2008
When a Tilda Swinton character feels boring compared to the rest of the characters, you know you have something special. Brad Pitt dominates this film, and makes us all ponder the security... of our shit.