Way swifter and lighter on its feet than I expected, with great fight choreography and a lot of flourish - a truly dashing swashbuckler and a delight.
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Say Anything... 1989
I remembered being mildly disappointed when I saw this for the first time - it’s a much quieter movie than its outsized reputation made me expect.
This time though - i noticed how it just gently did everything it does really well, how the actors’ chemistry has a very sweet glow, how this movie more and more focuses on Diane’s internal journey, and how it’s consistently humane in a way that’s extremely rare in an 80s comedy.
Feeling warm about adding a full star rating, and maybe adding this to the comfort watch rotation.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I loved it. I couldn't even process that while watching; as the credits rolled it hit me in waves, scene after scene I'd just watched. I'd been spoiled about several of the major plot points going in - a careless reviewer gave away Yoda's appearance and Rey/Kylo's connection, and a Troll with the username "Snoke&LukeBothDie" did considerably more. I went in saddened but hoping the space around those major moments would at least be worthwhile.
And to my surprise I…
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The Royal Road 2015
A bodiless film about desire; about the tug of and persistence of the past; about crossing distances between people and places and times,)and the ways that can evoke conquest and failure in a shared and changing landscape:
US/Mexico,
LA/SF,
(Im)possible lovers,
Hollywood/Reality
Past/Present,Not just as parallel dualisms but as a web extended over space, both generally and the specific space of California.
The combination of fiction/personal/historical evokes a film verson of someone like WG Sebald.
Of course it also…
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