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Last Days 2005
at this point i think i consume nearly all art to experience a particular something - doesn't matter what that something is, as long as it exists. and for the same reason i'm sure many people dislike this film, i love how well this expresses and evokes such a singular mood and atmosphere (notably of someone's....last days). blake’s life seems miserable and awkward and incommunicable through anything but music; the film is slow and awkward and so frequently silent, punctuated…
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Men 2022
??? braindead, aimless. buckley isn’t doing anything special but obviously had nothing to work with. garland had half an idea that took the title of the movie to explain and spent 100 minutes underlining the point. approached repetitively from the same angle, he never provides a salient reason he made this before hitting the eject button and trying to salvage the movie with tedious, uninspired body horror imagery (it doesn’t work.) embarrassing chore to sit through.
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Vanilla Sky 2001
Say what you will about Vanilla Sky, but movies just aren’t predicting 9/11 like they used to.
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RRR 2022
every american blockbuster director has got to feel so cucked watching this lol...what a picture! this is what real pop art looks like! something american cinema is utterly lacking in at the moment. comic book movies wish they could pull this kind of thing off — bombastic high energy spectacle with a gorgeously designed splash page every few minutes or so. just an endless stream of indelible moments and images. even the somewhat goofy cgi is glorious here, because the…
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Men 2022
I’m a pretty big Garland fan (and defender if Twitter’s current discussion of him is anything to go by) so it brings me no pleasure to say that this is a laborious, deeply, embarrassingly silly chore. Borders on parody in its self seriousness, especially the groan worthy end sequence. We get it, Alex. We really get it.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Finally watched this film after seeing it receive overwhelming praise. Was worried it might not live up to the hype and while I didn’t love the movie as much as some others did, It’s very easy to see why it has had such a reception. It’s a really fun and inventive sci fi film with some beautiful emotional moments.
Absolutely love how this movie has more inventive and crazy multiverse worlds than a big budget blockbuster that literally had “Multiverse of Madness” in its title.
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Men 2022
Occasionally arresting body horror, solid production value, and a game for anything Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear can’t prevent this from feeling like an incomplete film. Its creepy images and atmosphere are too often rendered inert by a backstory comprised of one beat hit over and over, resulting in a main character identified but not really complicated by her trauma. This is most evident in a final act that sidelines her to the point where we can’t even distinguish her…
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La Collectionneuse 1967
Realizing:
- Rohmer is a foot guy
- Nobody has shot the season of Summer with more beauty or diversity than Néstor Almendros (compare this to Pauline at the Beach… there’s levels to it!).
- I joked about it before but this movie is a Future album. You can practically taste some bar about leaving your new girl and booking the first flight to Heathrow.
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La Collectionneuse 1967
Behind this brightly natural and colourful setting, Eric Rohmer challenges the audience to contemplate their own morals and decision making. La Collectionneuse feels like a mood within itself with its perplexing love triangle and deeply spiritual dialogue. Intriguingly observational and my first ever Rohmer.
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