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Another Round 2020
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This film made an impact when I first viewed it last year. It was winning a lot of awards and I thought I'd give it a shot (pun intended). I've had mixed reactions to Vinterberg's films, but I really liked The Hunt, which seemed to be a turning point for Vinterberg into less rebellious cinema that certainly still has his trademark edge. Having enjoyed Mikkelsen in Hannibal and several other things, his work in the Hunt was more mature. But…
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Vertigo 1958
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Vertigo was always one of those films that was mesmerizing, but when it topped the Sight & Sound Greatest Films Of All Time 2012 list this only added to the mystique. The Bernard Herrmann score is certainly a candidate for best score of all time as well. It only serves to deepen the mystery of every scene. But, still, the question is why this film out of all of Hitchcock's masterpieces? It certainly has a fetishistic precision, and the themes of…
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Chungking Express 1994
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There's asymmetry in the length of the first story versus the second, which structurally presents the first as more of an appetizer and the second story as the entree. There's cohesion in the style of filmmaking between the two, but the technique of shooting less frames per second but then transferring them at 24 fps for many sequences, including more action-y ones, allows moments in the first story to settle into atmospheric and swirling tension. This works for the noir-ish…
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