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Perfect Blue 1997
An incredible look at how trauma fractures the identity, and therefore, the reality. Mima’s movements from scene to scene often flow perfectly together; the way she performs choreography on stage somehow becomes exactly how she reaches for milk in the grocery store. They don’t make sense in the context of her time and her space because she’s not living the reality, she's living the dream along with us. To be a pop star is to be a puppet, to be…
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Love Streams 1984
Not totally inscrutable, but damn hard to climb inside of. Cassavetes is the king of taking a character study and lining it with broken glass. What a director, holy shit this man needed a hug, and BAD. Gena Rowlands might be one of my favorite actors ever at this point, an absolute legend at holding a wild surface tension of pain and not spilling a drop. Shoutout to the LAPL for putting me on to this gem, I mean you can't see this ANYWHERE without buying a Blu-Ray.
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Licorice Pizza 2021
God DAMN this is a goodie.
Right at minute two, we get straight to the point: A spitfire, wayward soul and a surprisingly slick goob have an inexplicable chemistry, despite a ridiculous and wildly inappropriate age difference. Will they/won't they? That's the focus of the movie but, with the central question established, we can now burst free of the narrative, like the children everyone in this movie is, and sprint with reckless abandon in 90 different joyful directions; The highs…
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Porco Rosso 1992
In so many ways, an absolute Cheez Whiz delight. So much of the fun comes from the titular character, a suavecito, swashbuckling pig (played by a thoroughly Xanaxed Michael Keaton) and the inherent silliness of this premise being played straight up. I love the aesthetic, the light tone, the soaring moments of beauty (the "heaven" sequence is unexpectedly stunning for how childish and fun most of this movie is)... for the first half this had me without qualification.
But the…
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