A very unique combination of a film which is both near incomprehensible but so tangibly, *about* so many things. It’s a very angry film on top of everything else. This is my first David Lynch film and while I finished the film with a headache I now want to go and watch everything else he’s ever done.
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Wicked 2024
Went into this film fully intending to hate it. It’s a movie musical with a stunt-casted pop star that’s been in development hell for twenty years. And then when the credits rolled and the packed cinema started clapping I found myself clapping as well.
The only movie musical before this which I actually like and think is better than the stage version is 1968’s Oliver!. Oliver! works because it goes overboard with the orchestration and choreography and makes the stylized…
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Saltburn 2023
Somewhat enjoyable but the word I keep coming back to is “gratuitous”. The twist undercuts anything resembling a theme and leaves you with the implication that upper middle class northerners and mixed-race kids are out to get you. And by “you”, I mean people as posh as the director. And thus all the nastiness and the TikTok fancam-style homoeroticism amounts to almost nothing.
It clearly wants to be “British Parasite” but Fennell didn’t clock that the posh people in that…
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Malcolm X 1992
I watched this in high school and realized recently that it probably is my favourite film. It’s certainly what I consider to be the gold standard for biopics and historical films to which I compare all others to.
I think the two best creative choices film are 1) the fact that it ends with literally Nelson Mandela reading Malcolm X’s autobiography to a class full of schoolchildren and 2) how bloody long it was. He’s basically made a Shakespeare-style historical epic about the guy, and it’s a real statement - especially for the early nineties - that he should be a candidate for such treatment.
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