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Recent reviews

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  The Bad Sleep Well 1960

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 23 Mar 2023

  Even better on a rewatch.

  Nobody has adapted Shakespeare to widescreen cinema like Kurosawa - and this time he sets "Hamlet" under the cold modern visor of a Japanese (American-influenced) noir. Here, morally bankrupt big business is the new political hierarchy, and the castle walls are silently shaken by a stone-faced higher-up (Toshirō Mifune) who has long awaited to enact his personal revenge from the inside out. Unsurprisingly then, suit-and-tie corporate corruption and rich-get-richer fuck-all schemes taste just as bitter…

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  Cléo from 5 to 7 1962

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 10 Feb 2021

  A monochromatic plunge into fatalism where the visual loss of color - a literal change in film stock - becomes more than the aesthetic choice of black or white, but rather the reality of what Cleo's (Corinne Marchand) existence has been deduced to; life or death. Reversely, we do not enter the whimsical world of Oz full of hopes and dreams but are expelled out into the dark.

  Guided by Varda's real-time ticking clock, our self-obsessive singer is haunted by…

Popular reviews

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  The Lighthouse 2019

  Watched 21 Oct 2019 2

  "This film must be photographed on black and white 35mm negative.
  Aspect ratio: 1.19:1
  Audio mix: Mono"

  Robert Eggers must have balls that match the massive size of the phallic lighthouse itself to start a script this way but then proceed to back it up in the maddening final product that is The Lighthouse. With dubious amounts of farting, drunken wicky singing, seagull tippy-taps, and Robert Pattinson feverishly masturbating to a mythical sea creature - The Lighthouse throws you into…

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  Too Old to Die Young 2019

  ★★★ Watched 17 Jun 2019

  Too Old To Die Young really is something different. It shares shades from so many genres - from Surrealism to noir and even absurdist comedy. Yet everything still feels oddly bound to reality. Technically this is even NWR at some of his best. Lighting and set design are on point. The soundtrack is great. Cinematography is nothing short of beautiful. They often use these slow pans that create these long painterly like scenes, something straight off of museum walls. But…