Matt Lingo

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Deeper into movies. Favorites are my for top first time views of the last month (excluding new releases).

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Please, Come Over! 2023

★★★★★ Watched 28 Aug 2023

I produced this short and also held a boom mic. We all worked very hard on this and you can watch it here: youtu.be/rTGZTGm9ovM?si=jBFYDUNKxkrY6Qol
4:44 Last Day on Earth 2011

★★★★½ Rewatched 10 Jun 2023

So many things here that I adore: the score that plays over the opening credits becoming diegetic when we learn that it’s coming out of a character’s ipad, computer screens with 35mm grain, the Vietnamese delivery worker skyping his family (that last look they share will haunt me), Willem Dafoe’s raw animal sobs when his daughter makes an offhand joke about how a friend won’t lose their virginity before the world ends, and one of the best sex scenes ever…

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989

★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Oct 2023 1

Michael Gambon ate.
Fast X 2023

★★★ Watched 19 Sep 2023

vroom vroom

Beau Is Afraid 2023

★★ Watched 13 Apr 2023 3

Matt is tired.
TÁR 2022

★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2022

So obviously this movie has THOUGHTS on cancel culture, but I think that aspect of the movie is a red herring. The real subject here is genius--its consumption, the allowances granted, its distorting effects, the ways in which it is conferred and, just as suddenly, taken away. The movie's puckish in its provocations, but it isn't irresponsible. You could argue that Field hedges his bets by centering this film around a woman, but to that I'd say Cate Blanchett isn't…