I gave this a rewatch on Criterion’s 4k disk earlier tonight and I guess I need to round this up a half star to a full 5, at least for second viewings.
It is even better the second time around.
If you’ve somehow not given this one a watch yet, you should do yourself a favor and check it out.
Incident is a short doc directed by Bill Morrison and expertly pieced together by the New Yorker from police body cams, street surveillance video, dash cams, and cell phone cameras of a 2018 police shooting in Chicago's east side, at a time when the city was already reeling from a 2014 police shooting whose trial was soon to start.
Much of this doc effectively using split screens, often with 4 screens shown at once, from the various footage sources while…
Close is a pretty much perfect loss of innocence \ coming of age tale of two 13 year old boys that are finishing up a summer that is full of platonic love and mutual admiration and their heading off to the world of junior high school, where their circle of friends, peers, interests, and influencers expands dramatically and how they handle the differing points of views that they encounter.
This is a movie that clearly will resonate with many in…
Just a quick blurb for now, but as you can imagine, this was well worth the watch on the big screen. Skarsgård, as always, is fully immersed in this character and it's unique to anything he's done before, which is nice.
The costumes, camerawork, sound design, the dark, damp, often-times claustrophobic and foreboding feel all greatly add to the experience. Go watch it in the theaters while it's still there.
I'll take a deeper dive into a review after Christmas.
