Favourite films are the last four first watches that knocked me socks off.
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Trouble in Paradise 1932
A near perfect film. The 30s really were something weren't they. Delightful, seductive and hilarious. The equation of sex and crime, of pick pocketing and performance and play. It all ties in so nicely with the rhythm of the film, an audiovisual feast of glossy synchronicity. There are some genuinely dazzling sequences all of which serve the undercurrent of the drama without drawing too much attention. Monescu and Colet bouncing between bedrooms as the butler's head spins. Static images of…
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The Order 2024
Justin Kurzel certainly isn't the most underrated director out there, but he has to be in the conversation of being underappreciated. Sure his masculine, minimalist style might render his approach one note, but it casts a particularly striking tone and resonance. He's an expert craftsman when it comes to lean, muscular sequences of tension and intensity, with The Order being a pretty excellent example of what he does best. Sure it lacks some character depth and is perhaps tenuous when…
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Whiplash 2014
Either Damien Chazelle is a failed musician OR he's an old world, stodgy judge at brass band competitions who is probably also a failed musician. In reality, he's a film director and he's made one of the most frustrating films of 2014.
Whiplash is the by-product of music being stripped of it's creativity, innovation and soul. It's a film about a young man who strives for excellence in an environment that praises technical proficiency and exactness over humanity and the…
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