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Mulholland Drive 2001
Rewatched at Prince Charles, in honour of Lynch's passing.
This was a very special moment for me. David Lynch has been with me since I was 14, nearly 10 years. Before the film, one of Lynch's weather reports was broadcast to the applause of the crowd; as the credits rolled, applause again broke out. I was lucky to be amongst quite so many dedicated fans.
In terms of the film itself, I have long subscribed to the reading that it…
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Nickel Boys 2024
Recently I read a Toni Morrison novel; this film feels like Morrison given life in cinematic form. Utilising what I would call a strongly modernist style, I think Nickel Boys uses its place as a film to interrogate what it is "we" choose to frame and what ideas then become suggested and perpetuated through said framing. Many reviews have spoken of this as being a truly 'filmic' piece, and I agree-as the credits quitely rolled I was thinking I'd found…
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007
One of the best Westerns I've ever seen, pretty much perfect in every aspect: it's story is something that deconstructs the Wild Wests fictitious glory in films and American iconography as well as deconstructing the real life Wild West that the story of Jesse James exists in. Roger Deakins delivers some of the best natural and staged cinematography in not only his career but film in general, and I found myself enjoying pretty much every frame, from the shadowed train…
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First Reformed 2017
Due to popular request from the one guy who actually reads these, I rewatched First Reformed and again was impressed by how incredible this film is.
I love this film due to how intimate it is, it is perhaps the most intimate film I've seen: for just under two hours we are placed in the head space of Ethan Hawkes Ernst Toller, and the framing of the film around Tollers choice to record his thoughts on his loss of faith,…
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