The middle chunk in THE UNCUT NETWORK'S retrospective on Pasolini, Theorem is not the film to watch if you don't want to engage in the philosophy it presents. I failed to mention this on the podcast, but Theorem sees Pasolini's French New Wave influence come into full force - a film designed to entrance into a rhythm. I wasn't frustrated with Theorem, anything with the legendary Terence Stamp seducing an entire family and then vanishing is barebones on paper, but…
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The Long Good Friday 1980
Man, I miss Bob Hoskins. A firebrand and relevant crime movie that holds up now as it did back in 1980. Also, that POV shot from the upside gangster on a meat hook as he gets dragged into the abattoir line-up = bloody inspirational.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
This has the attention span of a fucking Smosh sketch; with all the fatigue and misery as that implies. I wonder how many followers I will lose for that sentence alone?
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Strange Days 1995
Part of my 52 Films by Women Challenge! (27/52)
My only gripe with Strange Days is that it's such a missed opportunity to not use the song 'Strange Days' by The Doors. Bad luck Bigelow, I give your cult classic an A-. Minus that cruel factor, Strange Days is an utterly spotless piece of science-fiction. From the very first shot, told from the point-of-view of a bank robber where his heist goes badly wrong, the level of skill needed to…
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