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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Our lives are full of existential questions and theories that many feel, if true, deem life pointless. This movie wrestling with those questions and coming to the simple conclusion that, no matter what happens to be true, our lives still matter, is lovely. The few scattered moments where everything makes sense make all the failing and flailing in between worth it. And the fact that the movie manages to get there with more laughs, better action and grander scale than any modern blockbuster is testament to what filmmaking in the theatrical sphere can be and how carelessly most movies are often made.
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Prick Up Your Ears 1987
"I always wanted to be an orphan. I could have, if it wasn't for my parents."
Before watching this I knew nothing about Joe Orton, so I have no idea how accurate the film is. Gary Oldman did a really good job as Orton though and Alfred Molina was also quite good as the other lead. The structure of the story was interesting and the film had some nice bits of humor thrown in. The soundtrack was pretty good and the film had a few standout scenes. 7/10
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Tokyo Drifter 1966
As the french new wave is praised cats like Seijun were doing there own new wave in Japan. Films like this are the antithesis to Kurosawa highly structured romanticized period pieces. Everything about this film is reckless. Killer acting, crazy story, and cool ass ending.
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Tokyo Drifter 1966
Tokyo Drifter is an intriguing triptych of noir, Western, and B-movie tropes, all synthesized through a neon lens. Seijun Suzuki contrasts pulpy thrills with his signature surrealist visual flair, presenting us with elaborate action sequences staged on ostentatiously colored sets. The film operates within a strange, heightened reality - one where it doesn’t seem as out of place when our protagonist suddenly erupts into song or executes the gang of hitmen stalking him while in the path of an approaching…
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Harvey 1950
I’m certain this is an overall good movie, and Jimmy Stewart? Great! But hoolyyy shiit, the film’s utter reliance on arbitrary miscommunication and contrived ignorance is so infuriating!!! It was impossible for me to stay engaged when there was a consistent through line of one character in a scene saying or doing something with some dramatic irony that was neither dramatic nor comedic. Insanely disappointed.
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Suzanne's Career 1963
“You can’t always do what you like.”
The second of Éric Rohmer’s six moral tales—Suzanne’s Career (La carrière de Suzanne)—is conveyed in the director’s trademark style of detached flashback, through which a timorous pharmacy student named Bertrand passively endorses the cavalier mistreatment of the titular Suzanne by his libertine accomplice Guillaume. Possessed of a sensitive and jealous disposition, Bertrand is not without ambivalence regarding his friend’s wolfishness, but by his own admission he tends to transfer this hostility to Guillaume’s…
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Faces 1968
Man, I have just not been able to get into John Cassavetes since the incredible A Woman Under the Influence. This was my least favorite viewing experience of the four I’ve seen. I think the first act is fine enough, John Marley initially bounces off great with Gena Rowlands and Mary Lynn Carlin, it begins to get repetive by the second act, and then these dynamics are missing and it loses even more steam despite averting the repetition. I did…
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
Somehow even worse than the third. We all know WB have their rea$on$ for wanting sequels but not one of them is a worthy follow up to the original and apparently no one involved in any of them can write dialogue for shit, just endless exposition.
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
Well everyone looked great but...
Writing, tone, pacing and even some designs and performances feel like they belonged to an entirely different series - which is VERY interesting given that so much of this 4th movie is first and foremost about recapturing the previous 3.
Revolutions is at ends with itself. New rules are introduced but without sufficient weight (or even steaks) for them to be respected. Choppy editing brings 1 scene quickly to another. Travel to the 'real world'…
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