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incidental film writer. programmer for spectacle nyc.
still as fascinating a concept as it was 25 years ago but really don’t think the monteiro original needed its own "gus van sant's PSYCHO" version that neither adds to / expands on the concept nor executes it nearly as well.
if donner’s SUPERMAN marked the golden age of superhero movies, singer’s X-MEN the silver age, and the mcu the bronze age, then that should put us firmly in like mid-90s liefeld / extreme studios territory right about now… which is to say that this is all much more fighting american than captain america.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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scorsese isn’t out here fighting for his life to stave off the death of cinema so that some fiftysomething wannabe edgelord can get on stage at the walter reade and wax pedestrian about wanting to explore ~what happens after~ —which if we’re being honest was clearly a preemptive out for the travesty about to unfold.
for what it’s worth i did really dig the use of infrared, specifically ways in which heat signatures are animated & manipulated to add figurative /…