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The Fever 2019
This film employs rather few of the pulpy cinematic conventions that would tell an international audience exactly how to feel about the events within. The climactic action of the plot is nothing more than protagonist Justino looking over his shoulder at a weird thing in the woods. And yet, it's exactly this understated approach that puts A Febre right up there with the films of those whom Paul Schrader called "transcendental". The characters of A Febre, much like those of…
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971
The production of this movie is a legend unto its own, but it starts with Melvin Van Peebles being so frustrated by working with Columbia Pictures on his previous feature, <The Watermelon Man, that he went and made this movie (and all the rest) independently. I am fortunate to have seen The Watermelon Man, which was a very funny and at times poignant movie, because with that context I can safely say that Mr. Van Peebles should’ve taken a writer…
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Nashville 1975
The high marks are certainly not an endorsement of the things some of these characters say, but rather an approval of Robert Altman’s impressionist take on the American South. White people obsessed with black people, men obsessed with women, Protestants obsessed with Catholics. In particular I was noticing how every last woman in the whole movie is pushed around by men in some way or another. I noticed it in scenes that depict gaslighting and emotional abuse - but I…
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