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  I'm Still Here 2024

  Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Put that camera down, damn it. 
  
  Precise and deeply emotional. Surprised me with its concentration on the personal and political ambiguities of image-making (hence the Blow-Up references).

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  Spite Marriage 1929

  Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Shoot him. The audience will think it's part of the show.

  Off of the stage and into the world (which is also a stage). Apparently this was Keaton's final silent film, which explains the strange mixture of silent and talkie techniques - the intertitles and timing are familiar and the characters don't speak but the score and the sound effects themselves are synchronized, turning it into a kind of almost-uttered hybrid with more specific noises and cues than I was…

Popular reviews

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  Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021

  ★ Watched 17 Dec 2021

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2021

  *emerges from the theater with glowing blue eyes*

  Mind-numbingly beautiful. My heart is so full. It’s surreal to see a near-perfect translation of your imagination to the screen.