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A Brighter Summer Day 1991
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Couldn't remember much about this from my first viewing but there is a lot to love here so it was nice to get to experience the film "as new" if not actually a first viewing. For one thing, I love the way it's shot, not dissimilar to other Taiwanese films of the era like A City of Sadness or even later mainland films like Platform by Jia Zhangke. There's something so beautiful about the framing of every scene that is…
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Bleak Moments 1971
Interesting to see how Mike Leigh delivered his first film very much with almost the exact same ethos and approach as every subsequent film. There are some nice moments in here like Pat's very particular way of indulging in sweets and everyone's fascination with Norman's repetoire of drug-taking guitar songs.
At the same time, the quietness of this film, particularly between Sylvia and Peter after their date, feels a bit wrong somehow. I don't think Mike Leigh ever had characters…
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The Contestant 2023
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Interesting story, but quite an uninquisitive presentation of it. The most obvious question you could ask about Nasubi and his 15 month saga is why did he never decide to leave? And even though the director claims to have been thinking about that throughout the process, it's never addressed in any meaningful way.
The film instead tries to paint Nasubi as a victim of the show's producer Tsuchiya. But even Tsuchiya is not confronted in any way that counts. In…
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Black Christmas 1974
Move to Toronto in October, Toronto horror film shows up on Criterion. It was fated.
This was really excellent. Has more of a procedural feel to it than I was expecting. It doesn't play out at all like your standard slasher, and I suppose that's to be expected as it supposedly pre-dates that genre by about five years. But it had that fun element of not knowing who the killer was, which made films like Slumber Party Massacre feel less…
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