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Ganja & Hess 1973
The first 30-45 minutes or so (time is very hard to keep track of while watching this movie) are a masterpiece. It's hypnotic, psychedelic, hauntingly erotic. Much of this carries throughout, and the political thrust of the film - that there is a dark side to individualist Black success as it comes at the expense of poor Black people - is conveyed really artfully and poignantly.
But around the midpoint, the narrative gets a little too straightforward, and I started…
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The Long Goodbye 1973
Favorite joke is when the mob stooge makes fun of the hippy lesbians for selling craft goods by saying they should get a real job.
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Sisters with Transistors 2020
I really wanted to love this movie, and for the most part I did. But the erasure of Wendy Carlos's career soured it for me so much. At one point, Suzanne Ciani says that her score for the 1981 Incredible Shrinking Woman was the first one for a major Hollywood picture composed by a woman, and there wasn't another for 14 years later. When in fact, Carlos scored Clockwork Orange in 1971 (Edit: in fairness, she was still closeted at…
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Buddha: The Great Departure 2011
Buddha by Osamu Tezuka is one of my favorite manga ever, and you should absolutely read it. However, do not watch this film, because it just completely mangles the source material to fit several volumes into two hours, and does so with some of the slackest storytelling and the stiffest fucking acting, completely wasting some famous voice talent like Toru Furuya.
Can I also say, I hate this thing that a lot of more recent Tezuka adaptations have done of…
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