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Michael Clayton 2007
Revisiting this as I follow along with The Big Picture's 25 for '25 podcast series.
Movie still rocks! The performances across the board are outstanding - yes Clooney, yes Tilda Swinton, yes Tom Wilkinson, but also Sydney Pollack and Michael O'Keefe and the band of merry supporting characters. Plus, and most importantly, Tony Gilroy's script is tight, tight, tight. A movie that's not shot to impress, it lets the character work and the writing do that.
It's the anti-George Clooney role - Michael Clayton's not charming, he's not heroic, he's not self-assured - and it might be his best work.
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Quiz Show 1994
This was predictably my kind of movie - it's called Quiz Show!
Ole Bobby Redford knew what he was doing behind the camera as much as in front of it, eh? Lovely stylish period work here, and it's a stellar cast - Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Paul Scofield, the sliminess of David Paymer and Hank Azaria, Marty Scorsese(!!!)
I was very thrown off by the (correctly portrayed) format of Twenty-One, though. Deranged inconsistency with single-part/multi-part questions. What kind of quiz show was this?
[3/26 of 1994 watchlist]
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Sorcerer 1977
This has been on my watchlist since I tried to but failed to see a 4-track mag print of this at the New Beverly when I was out in LA earlier in the summer.
While trading out a movie theater viewing for one from my couch is certainly a downgrade, needs must, and I was still struck by how certifiable this movie is. William Friedkin's a crazy man, but in a way that film-lovers can appreciate.
I legitimately do not…
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Snowpiercer 2013
Trying to write more, so no better place to start!
Wanted to see this after Parasite for obvious reasons and I'm pleasantly surprised to say it is nothing like Parasite and also everything like Parasite. Lots of the same themes with class division and the haves and have-nots but an entirely different - but equally enticing - premise and setting. I only hope if all of humanity ends up stuck on a train that it's as fascinating and diverse as…
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