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Halloween 1978
Should talk about Halloween but this revisit just particularly illustrated why I use letterboxd in the hard diary way I do. Don't love the pov of my review from seven years ago lol but life is about growth!
My arthouse is doing the whole major Carpenter run for the next couple months, which will rock.
Cruel and precise, a mix of Carpenter's self-avowed Hawks-aping classicism mixes with this maybe subliminal understanding that with Michael Myers, Carpenter has tapped into something…
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The Seventh Seal 1957
Is this out of fashion right now? I've never really run into a big Seventh Seal-head who's a younger folk. Point me in the right direction if you know otherwise.
If it is out of fashion, I suppose subject-matter-wise I could see why if I squinted, I guess, but like...holy shit, I was absolutely gobsmacked by this deservedly titanic masterpiece.
I don't know where to start so I'll go with the obvious. This is extraordinary, riveting, invigorating craft with special…
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The Long Goodbye 1973
nobody has ever smoked as much as elliott gould does in this movie. Absolute god-tier puffin'. He even times his mic drops to coincide with lighting up! people just need to face up to the truth that smoking in movies generally looks very cool
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Nope 2022
Nope might be the least specific and pointed of Jordan Peele's expanding ouevre of socially-biting horror films, but in some ways its more scattershot approach befits my increasingly generalized fears of just...fuckin going out in the world these days.
But it’s also really, really fun, and I think that we are at this point so accustomed to thinking of Peele's work as like, this thing that a YouTube essayist can find THE DEFINITIVE ANSWER to. Peele is really, really smart…
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