A perfect film for a snow day! David Lean is the master of using the epic form for introspective purposes. Giving the audience their money’s worth in sweeping spectacle to tell an intimate, personal story. You can’t help but get swept up in it! As much as I loved The Brutalist there is just nothing on this level of grandeur today and I do long for it.
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The Brutalist 2024
From the moment the VistaVision logo appeared and that heart-pounding overture began only to crescendo with one of the most electrifying images (and statements of theme) I’ve experienced in a film in a long time and then transition to a dynamic opening credit sequence I immediately knew that Brady Corbet’s stunning epic was not only made for me but was a “sink in” film. A film that from its opening note makes you sink into your seat and allow it…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
In his 1967 review for BONNIE AND CLYDE, Roger Ebert wrote; “The fact that the story is set 35 years ago doesn't mean a thing. It had to be set sometime. But it was made now and it's about us.”
This is how I feel about Martin McDonagh’s remarkable new film THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN. The fact that it is set in 1923 in a fictional Irish village on a remote island is irrelevant because the film was made…Translated from by -
Licorice Pizza 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Seeing the masterful Closely Watched Trains playing this morning on TCM has helped me with a recent second viewing of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza. They both feature seemingly charming, whimsical coming of age narratives set in the past that are also below the surface deeply sad and heartbreaking reflections of the tragedies of youth flying in the face of a troubling adult world. While nowhere near as horrific as the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, the oil embargo of 1973…
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