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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
Fire walk with me just get better every time I watch it. Incidentally this is the first time I've watched it directly after watching The Return; "Once I was blind and now I can see"
In reflection ,FWWM is the fundamentally the dream logic and thematic linchpin of Twin Peaks, it enriches the whole series (in particular The Return) and in turn, The Return also in riches FWWM. It's the culmination of 25 years of surreal artific vision manifested in…
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Boyhood 2014
"The good news is you're feeling stuff. And you've got to hold on to that"
As a 95' child, Masons childhood is filled with echoes and cultural bookmarks that mirror my own. In the opening 20mins, we see Mason watch Dragon Ball Z on a CRT Tv, read Harry Potter with his mum and play on his gba sp.
Needless to say when I saw his back when it came out I was 19, and similarly had a empty feeling…
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Alien: Romulus 2024
For the first 30mins or so I really didn't enjoy gen Z Aliens. But it's slowly won me over and by the mid point I was pretty invested in what the film had set up.
From a continuity perspective this takes place less than 20 year after the original alien and for me there has to be more of an effort to establish a stylistic continuity with that film. Yes I appreciate that it's set in the future which gives…
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Polytechnique 2009
I was expecting this to be more of an academic experience. An early work for Dennis Villeneuve, so more of a curiosity than anything else. So this completely caught me off guard.
Shot in black on white, this feels akin to aronofskys Pi or Nolan's Following, in that it's an early formative film of a modern iconic director. However, unlike those 2 films, this isn't actually Dennis first feature. He actually directed 2 films prior to this, however after tepid…
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