I love that David Cronenberg continues to write and direct engaging films into his 80's. What other filmmaker thinks of putting a high-end restaurant in the middle of a cemetery? As presented here, the cemetery in question looks more like the Norton Simon Museum, and they have a cafe and are open to the public as a memorial to the past, so why not? The Shrouds is certainly one of his more hypnotically beautiful pictures. It helps that Vincent Cassel,…
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Unforgiven 1992
If you ever find yourself wondering what made Gene Hackman such a gifted actor, just watch the jail scene from Unforgiven. It's after Hackman's Sheriff Little Bill has kicked the living crap out of Richard Harris's memorable English Bob. As Bob lay in his cell, bleeding and beaten, Hackman's Little Bill proceeds to educate the writer who was chronicling English Bob's adventures into grossly exaggerated yarns regarding the truth about English Bob. It's a masterful scene and Hackman commands your…
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The Heiress 1949
Just carve my heart out of my chest with a spoon! Why a spoon? Because it will hurt more! I feel like William Wyler's film channels the spirit of Alan Rickman's comment as the Sheriff of Nottingham from 1991's Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Watching this felt far more heartrendingly brutal than reading Henry James's Washington Square, the novel on which the film is based. The performances here are that powerful. I would be willing to wager that more than one patron exited theaters in 1949 after watching The Heiress and headed straight to the nearest ER to be treated for blood loss.
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
One of the more beautifully filmed pieces of cinema that I have had the pleasure of watching. The camera work itself is a meditation on timelessness, just as Brendan Gleeson's Colm is doing his best to contribute something of artistic value that will long outlive the memory of the more everyday aspects of his life, such as friendship, the sweeping cinematography provides its own answer to his worries in the way it allows the viewer to unfold the timeless landscape.…
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