Jacques Tourneur might be my favourite discovery of the last few months. Out of the Past is an almost perfect Noir film, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer are excellent, and the ending is shocking, particularly for the 40s.
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Gummo 1997
Gummo feels so real it could be a documentary. The depiction of poverty in the USA is powerful and shocking, and thankfully it never romanticises the poverty the characters inhabit. I know this gets a lot of criticism for being disjointed and just being a collection of scenes, but that's what makes Gummo so special. There isn't a grand story arch, it's a collection of moments which make up a horrific reality for portion of the USA's society. Powerful stuff
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No Other Land 2024
By far the most important film of 2024. A sickening and infuriating watch, it's impossible to watch this and not want to jump out of your seat and take some form of action against the Israeli apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people. We live in a world where the mass slaughter of Palestinians means so little to so many, No Other Land is an important vessel for humanizing Palestinians and exposing the Israeli structures of oppression. We see innocent…
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