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Satantango 1994
Last Saturday, having recently graduated, I took advantage of my combination of unemployment and general paralysis and saw a more than seven hour film at BFI Southbank. Add the two intermissions and that's nine hours, not counting the journey to and from London. Even on a weekend, this is a major time commitment that one cannot make at just any point in their life, nor to just anything. I have been aware of this film for more than five years,…
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Being John Malkovich 1999
Going into this, I expected what I now realise is probably closer to Synecdoche, New York. I'm sure I saw the 'comedy drama' descriptor, but I could never have predicted how much I—and the entire cinema—would laugh out loud, and not just at the more obvious wacky scenes.
The first hour or so is the most 90s intellectual slacker-but-sincere movie I have ever seen: Lynch by way of DFW. Its dialogue delivers a combination of the campy exaggeration in much…Translated from by
