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  • Punch-Drunk Love

    ★★★★½

  • Indecent Proposal

    ★★★

  • Coco Before Chanel

    ★★★★★

  • Before Sunrise

    ★★★★★

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  • Punch-Drunk Love

    Punch-Drunk Love

    ★★★★½

    Lots of cool symbols and colors. Very distinctively disorienting vibe, well done

  • Coco Before Chanel

    Coco Before Chanel

    ★★★★★

    Pride and prejudice esque storyline, classic and empowering. It’s always nice to place into the shoes of the old fashioned struggle to marry to survive and how there are some good people in the world who understand the backwardness of lots of the social norms. 

    I think these kinds of movies are great because it’s like a jazz standard. We kind of know what’s coming but can still enjoy the execution and subtleties of pacing or presentation and framing of…

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  • Bean

    Bean

    ★★★★

    Nice concepts:
    - color palette table
    - acting fancy in first class
        - Bragging to others very excited and proud
    - The rhythm of blowing his nose - classic signature
    - Cutting back and forth - irony of them thinking he’s a genius
    Whistler’s whistle

    Weird how they reused the bits of airplane - blowing the bag and exploding
    Very overly colorful people’s outfits - maybe that helps make his brown basic stand out
    He nails the hesitant…

  • Lost in Translation

    Lost in Translation

    ★★★★★

    To me the standout element of this movie is being economical in a lot of things like moving past events quickly and allowing there to be more space in dialogue. Bill is always good with that silent and jaded style, but also able to be playful. By the end of the movie I felt like I had a really solid spatial map of that repetitive drudging lifestyle, Bob going to work then the jazz bar and Charlotte looking out the…