Pretty decent movie with a few amazing parts: Newman’s wonderful score (got a YouTube vid of Julien’s Suite on repeat), the occasionally gorgeous Lachman shots, especially that sweeping desert ultra wide at the end, the tennis court scene + Julien’s illness scene, both anchored by RDJ, this film’s primary and luckiest strength, in one of his greatest performances. He’s about the most beautiful boy in any movie I’ve ever seen here. Anyway, book better, but this mostly-successfully sanitizes and once-in-a-while amplifies the text in surprising and welcome ways.
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Barbie 2023
Watched with Director’s Commentary and liked it so much more. Nothing constructive to say about this, but I just enjoy it a lot and think it’s spectacularly well done.
Saw someone recently sleeping on the wall of a Chicago subway station, wearing Gosling’s “I Am Kenough” hoodie, with a slice of Giordano’s on their lap.