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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
Surprisingly spooky. I was interested to watch this in this age of AI. We should fear technocracy! I liked but The Wrong Trousers sets the bar pretty high.
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? 2018
This movie will help us resist fascism. (N.B. One scene that sticks with me is the interviewer who can't conceive of a world where a masculinity like Rogers' exists; his imagination is too small to contain a heterosexual expression of manhood that is tender, compassionate, playful, and vulnerable.) Long live Fred. Now go and do likewise.
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Pavarotti 2019
I was deeply moved by this. The Three Tenors footage made me laugh out loud with real joy; the Pagliacci clip made me gasp and tear up (I'm reminded of my abiding love for "Reflection" from the Mulan soundtrack); and that final scene, where the camera travels slowly to a close-up of Pavarott's face, subtitles gone now, sending the final note of "Nessun dorma" into the world with every particle of his being, one great breath, one massive cry, giving…
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In the Mood for Love 2000
The interiors, especially curtains, textiles, costumes, were all so lush. The curious mixture of historicization (including even some historical footage of de Gaulle's visit to Cambodia) and the almost claustrophic rotation of settings (street corner, noodle shop staircase, hallway, her room, his room) made it feel simultaneously of a time and out of time--like a play, intentionally leaning away from realism (no passersby, just the main actors on the stage). I found it quite beautiful but I think I wanted something more from the storytelling.
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