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Marriage Story 2019
“I’ll never stop loving him, even though it doesn’t make sense.”
In its stunning 4K Criterion Collection release, ‘Marriage Story’ beautifully negotiates the delicate balance between broad comedy and deep-seated melodrama. Supervised by Baumbach himself, the transfer underscores the film’s muted color palette, punctuated by the occasional burst of color. The auditory rendering ensures clear delivery and amplifies the resonant notes of Randy Newman’s alternatingly buoyant and melancholic score.
The powerfully raw Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are at the…
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The Princess Diaries 2001
Towards the beginning, Mia’s in class about to give a presentation, but then she freaks out and starts gagging, ready to throw up. As she runs out of the classroom, someone yells “someone cover the tuba,” and I think that’s a brilliant throwaway joke.
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Kate & Leopold 2001
So many plot holes and no way in hell that Kate enjoys nyc in the 1870s but hugh jackman is just charming as hell
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Twilight 2008
patently insane, gloriously incomprehensible in all of its dutch angles and blue color palettes and quotables that it’s hard not to enjoy every blessed second of it. theres no way a studio would fund something as wild or as visually abstract as this in 2020 lol. well deserved of being the film to terrorize Pinterest boards for the better part of a century
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Twilight 2008
American conservatism through the lens of its sexual politics
A rural American romantic melodrama. The cultural coordinates are all here: the cop-dad, the red pickup truck, the move from the big city to the middle of nowhere Washington State, the descendants of Native Americans who don’t go to school with you because they’re stuck out on their reservation. Enter stage left the Capulets and Montagues, or rather here the Cullens and the Quileutes and their mythical…
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Twilight 2008
Tonight was an absolute blast. This was this presented on 35mm which is rare for a lot of films these days but especially Twilight. You know? I feel like we often save 35mm presentations for the best of the best films out there. This felt like a true homage to 2008.
What made it even better was being at the Colonial Theater where The Blob (1958) was prominently featured. People laughed and quoted the movie as we watched and it…
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Twilight 2008
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Every scene is 100% explosive flammable ever-expanding intensity of cringe and pain and sorrow and love - an honest and critical dissection of hormones. Never forget when Edward first sees Bella in biology and he seems to orgasm and scream internally all at once, all while Catherine Hardwicke lingers on his clenched fist and the physical contortion of his body. First crushes are no joke, and these two actors, who each went on to be great artists and adults in their own way, seem to be right in the midst of it themselves.
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Zodiac 2007
The desperation to know the unknown overwhelms and forever torments, but always eludes. It’s an all-consuming feeling, a thirst that cannot be quenched. It's a constant battle between curiosity and frustration, a never-ending cycle of questions without answers. Have other people ever felt this way? Have they ever found the answers they're searching for? Still, there is something exhilarating about the pursuit of the unknown. It's what keeps us going. But in the end, the mystery doesn't cease, the enigma…
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Mysterious Skin 2004
How do we move on from trauma? How do we rationalize unfathomable cycles of abuse? What lies do we tell ourselves so that we may live with the pain? “Mysterious Skin” poses these questions and more, although Araki is smart enough to basically admit that he doesn’t have all the answers. This is also an uncommonly earnest and painful film from this director, who is arguably known for slathering most of his movies in nihilistic, hyperstylized layers of ironic remove.…
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Mysterious Skin 2004
Traumas can be shared between victims, but the way that each person’s mind processes them is entirely singular. One might say... alien to anyone else.
Gregg Araki’s “Mysterious Skin” is a teeth-grittingly genuine portrayal of trauma as told through abstraction. It’s a fitting choice of style; given the chimeric nature of psychological wounds — particularly those endured in childhood.
Araki one-ups the Spielberg-ian concept of the tandem nature of wonder and terror, and instead twins the fantastic with the fatalistic.
In…
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