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Secret Sunshine 2007
Every Lee Chang-dong film I watch feels like it's on the running for the best. A master of creeping, inching, slice of life cinema. No chest codes, no cheap shots, no shortcuts to his drama, his melancholy, his comedy. Secret Sunshine is a story about grief, it is a story about faith, it is a story about the import of relationships, but I love it most as a counterbalance to the cozy propaganda around small towns and the supposed relief…
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The Loveless 1981
My degrading attention span continues to bedevil me, as I almost gave up on this after experiencing what I then labeled as extreme boredom, but would now define as petit shock. Considering Near Dark, Point Break, Blue Steel, and Stranger Days The Loveless's pacing and story were far from what I expected. A meandering aimless tale of meandering aimless people is somehow both absolutely Bigelow and not Bigelow at all. Of her early to mid career works this is exactly…
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Red River 1948
Near perfect representation of the west both as the dreamer has conjured and as the reality challenges. Strong men, willing to do anything and all to protect what they barely pay attention to. Fascinating to watch them push on, degradate, and pull off over miles of country at war with their fable. Two men who love each other deeply and dearly and as father and son should in every way except the actual speaking of the words and worse still…
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Drylongso 1998
Not so much moving as it is moving -a constantly shifting film that moves through seasons, conflicts, commentaries (be it the low value metric on black lives, lived experiences of BW, motherhood or other) as if going through a scrapbook. A time lapse montage with no lapse. This is both it's strength and it's weakness, as nothing ever fully sticks with you singularly. There is no one photo or few photos that that conjure connection and emotion, but the entirety.…
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