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Black Bag 2025
A real movie. Characters motivated by their own traits and personalities. Showing, not telling. Pierce Brosnan expertly deployed. Suspense drawn from watching people sit on a bench or cut garlic. 93 minutes that feels like maybe 55 as opposed to two and half hours that feels like four. Extremely horny but without any explicit sex or nudity. Smart dialogue that doesn’t feel like it was written by someone who’s spent too much time on social media. I love this movie and what it stands for: entertainment by watching expert storytelling craftsmanship.
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The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya 2010
Somewhere between the second and third longest animated film ever made, and only by a few minutes, not that it’s particularly relevant, just that it’s a fun fact. It makes sense that the Haruhi series, which with its endless eight storyline presented the anime equivalent of endurance cinema, would conclude (for now) with a feature film that would take up about two thirds of a cour of the average anime production. I meant to watch this when I finished re-watching/watching…
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The Red Shoes 1948
I did not know the restoration tonight would be a freshly struck 35mm print. I was all ready for a very beautiful 4K digital scan, but I got absolute transcendence instead. No movie has ever looked this good. It contains the platonic ideal of every color on the spectrum. Red in this movie doesn’t “red,” it IS red. If I can see a 35mm version of this film every 10-15 years, I will have lived a life of incredible beauty.…
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The People's Joker 2022
Getting to the core of why I didn’t like this movie despite it being a film that speaks directly to my age and experience would take a book. Perhaps it’s simply that despite sharing many of Vera Drew’s interests and pretty much all of her cultural signifiers, I don’t share her point of view, and I’m not even saying this in regard to gender or the “transfeminine experience.” It’s not that I reject the movie because I’m “not trans like…
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