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Miller's Crossing 1990
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Gave myself a little pre-St. Patrick's Day treat by rewatching this. Anyway what an absolutely devastating picture. Some have called this an exercise in pure nihilism, those cold-hearted Coen Brothers showing off their expertise in imitating genre tropes and then leaving out the crucial, crucial heart — but that's absolutely not the case. This is a deeply tragic story, a warning to all those who close off their hearts out of self-defense or personal striving or whatever and all they…
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The Beguiled 2017
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So I prefer the Siegel version a bit more than this; he plumbs the lurid, twisted depths of this story better, shading the whole thing with a rotten atmosphere of sexual repression and incest, turning the entire school into a Freudian labyrinth of horror and violence. I also wish Coppola had kept Hallie in there; her scathing sarcasm and world-weariness was necessary to balance out the hypocritical self-pity of the Southern belles, and without her the whole thing becomes a…
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Blue Velvet 1986
I'm usually not affected by celebrity deaths but Lynch dying really hurts. What a brilliant man, a man who created an entire sensibility that feels more and more like our world as the years go by. It's just so tragic: I knew he had emphysema but I had no idea it was that far along. This man dodged the LA fires not even a week ago! It's so disorienting and bizarre — kinda like his works. Like I have received…
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The Truman Show 1998
This is one of those pictures I've always wanted to see but put off forever because I foolishly thought it was treacly and middlebrow (despite having something of a soft-spot for middlebrow treacle when all is said and done. That and sometimes Jim Carrey can be a little much). Turns out I'm really stupid and snobby because this is much darker and far more terrifying than I ever thought. It's almost crazy something this existentially terrifying and emotionally gutting was…
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