Francois Truffaut came into my world in the most brilliant way with not a hint of warning. I had started the second year of my undergrad a week late and barely had enough time to pick up a syllabus before I found myself in a screening room for Jules and Jim. The film left absolutely no impression on me after my initial viewing, or so I thought. As the months passed, however, I found myself reminiscing upon the story that…
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Mulholland Drive 2001
****Warning, this is less a review of Mulholland Dr. and more a thank you letter to David Lynch for changing my life*****
No piece of art has ever had as profound an impact on my life than Mulholland Dr. I say, in a very literal way, that Mulholland Dr. changed my life.I had never looked at cinema as an art form before, I actually had hardly looked at cinema before. I grew up in a single parent home with a…
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Anatomy of a Fall 2023
I'm starting this out with a nitpick that's only mildly related to the film and mostly aimed at The Academy but I was so excited to see two international features nominated for Best Picture and then I was so disappointed watching this as half of its in English. Oh well, someday we'll see the Best Picture category stacked with nominees in a language other than English. I'm patient.
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American Fiction 2023
I have wildly mixed feelings on this film and thusly don't know how to rate it. On it's own as a family drama, I found the film compelling and engaging. Films don't exist in a vacuum, however, and this one wanted to have much more depth than a conventional family drama. It also thinks it was being much less conventional than it turned out to be. Also, it was based on a book, so there exists yet another criterium by…
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