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  The Pigeon Tunnel 2023

  ★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2024

  I love Errol Morris.  I love John le Carre.  I think their sensibilities could not be more at odds and, while I believe the hope was that such a conflict would create a mesmerizing interrogation, the end product is a frustrating failure.  With every quick edit or reenactment or Glass cue I’d find myself wanting to scream at Morris to let Carre (Cornwall) speak.  With every evasive Carre answer I’d find myself wanting to scream at him to match the…

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★★ Rewatched 28 Nov 2023

  The party line seems to be that “there’s no there, there.” While I could be misjudging the filmmaker’s intent (I appreciate Fennell’s first entry less in retrospect and don’t dig her clear love of M. Night style third act twist drops) I do believe the whole point is to take in the form. With a soundtrack this killer and style this delicious, who gives a shit about substance?

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★★½ Added

  Even the 'lesser' Cronenberg movies trigger me somewhere in my subconscious or lizard brain. I find that his work stays with me days after viewing and "Crimes of the Future" is no exception. Whatever he encodes into the work, or transmits, rattles around in my mind for a while. His ideas are stimulating and captivating and maddening.

  There's a lot going on in this one, a lot of ideas encoded, and it will be decoded differently by different people. I'm…

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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 05 Feb 2021 2

  There’s a lot of analysis on this film worth reading, but on this rewatch I was struck by Gary Busey in his small turn as a worried dad.  Busey has become a punchline, unfortunately, but in his prime he was a talented, engaging and authentic performer.

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