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The Quiet Man 1952
My first Ford. In 35. I have been transformed.
The print was pretty good given its age. Plus half the fun is seeing the damage the film has taken over time.
King Ford gives absolutely no fuck for consistency/continuity in lighting. He’ll go from an overcast day exterior to what’s clearly a sound stage with lights coming from totally unmotivated places. All he cares about is the emotional effect. The whole film for me was like this, images so loaded,…
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Castration Movie Anthology I: Traps 2024
Guess what I watched the second part again bc it fucking rules.
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Anora 2024
The stars belong to the stars, Mikey Madison really does a lot with an archetypal part, as do the Russian and Armenian gang of goons. The problem is that Baker seems more interested in them than the titular character. It seems he often manages to pay more attention to even childish Vanya’s gestural and overall idiosyncrasy (excellent turn from Eydelshteyn) rather than Ani’s.
He does a disservice to Madison by sidelining her for the whole middle of the movie which…
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Barbie 2023
As has been said already, the politics are too confused/blatantly lib for the movie to mean or say much of anything. Astounding set and production design but the camerawork is surprisingly unimaginative—yes the sets are beautiful but the way the camera is positioned and moves is boring as hell.
I’ll grant Brody’s point that Gerwig was given some freedom here but the issue remains, for me personally, that Gerwig is so much smarter than whatever this is. Her performances as…
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