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Thelma & Louise 1991
Digitally restored and available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection, Thelma & Louise is a movie you must see again. Beyond those central performances — vibrant, fun and full of life — Thelma & Louise is an utterly beautiful film, lensed by Adrian Biddle, one of Ridley Scott’s collaborators from the British days, and proof positive that sometimes it takes foreign eyes to see the majesty of the American landscape.
Criterion’s set is also worth digging into for the…
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The Blair Witch Project 1999
I basically watched it three times the past 2 days while making a video essay on it for class. Still one of my all-time favorite movies. Not only a masterpiece but kind of a miracle that it even exists at all with all the room it had to be a disaster.
Working on this essay though one thing became very clear to me, Heather Donahue is the movie’s actual auteur and we did not give her the respect she deserved. An incredible actress and genius creative mind.
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. 2023
Every performance is charming, every scene is meaningful, and every directorial choice serves the story and characters. A true tween movie. Period.
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Aliens 1986
Did a Q&A and a book signing for my book after this screening at IFC Center. Great crowd, great night, and I feel so grateful.
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Master Gardener 2022
The man sits alone in his room. His name is Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) and he is a gardener, but he might as well be Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) or gambler William Tell (Oscar Isaac) or any one of writer-director Paul Schrader’s “man in a room” protagonists.
Schrader's latest, Master Gardener, forms the final entry in what many critics consider an unofficial trilogy, the previous entries being 2017’s First Reformed and 2021’s The Card Counter. All three are good…
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The Godfather 1972
Sometimes you have to watch a movie 100 times before it clicks that Bonasera, the guy with the very first lines in the movie, is an undertaker. Death emerging from inky darkness in praise of the American dream.
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My Neighbor Totoro 1988
They were showing this at our local cinema this morning and the theatre was full of parents introducing the film to their kids and - between audible sobs and children asking cute questions - I swear it was one of the greatest movie-going experiences of my life.
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