Egoyan possesses a poetic language for the repressed sensuous atmosphere, never spoken but always lingering, and the ghosts hidden so deeply in their psychological baggage that only the rude awakening of a single event will unpack it. He's a filmmaker who understands being a film goer, knows what the audience is anticipating considering envisioning to the extent he rarely uses words to convey them, letting the haunting quality of his cosmos speak for itself. An alternate reality where the graciously…
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Blood and Black Lace 1964
I don’t mess with giallo too often and I am definitely guilty of flippantly disregarding them because of this, or have some weird vendetta against anyone who glorifies those aesthetics. Blood and Black Lace is beyond that biased criticism, existing as the godfather of pulp novels put to film and neon-soaked dread, what's not to love? The infamous black gloves, whodunnit mystery, romantic fashion careers, mannequins, and mansions.
It is the movie that started it all and maybe in that…
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Seven Veils 2023
The maestro of unpacking the depths of grief and creating immense emotional inner worlds for their web of characters. Atom Egoyan reflects on, without as many unraveling puzzles or delayed revelations, trauma and the implications of portraying them. Unlike his other films, there are no mysteries. There's only the truth. Uncomfortable confrontation with our emotions and our pasts. Everyone is motivated by their hangups. Like Birdman, it's that wild mirror reflecting life through the stage. Love that.
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Call Me by Your Name 2017
Call Me By Your Name provides everything we want in a universal desire for the perfect, unfettered time of youth. It delivers the romantic ideal: a passionate first love born from intense attraction, set against a backdrop of sun-drenched days, late-night adventures, and blissful freedom. Skinny dipping. Dancing. Reading. No obligations, no bills to pay.
The film avoids the usual coming-of-age tropes like nostalgic voiceovers or overly sentimental depictions, choosing instead a grounded, almost observational approach as if told in…
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The Daytrippers 1996
A Proto-Little Miss Sunshine: unseen micro-budget family van ride story. Everyone’s idiosyncrasies and flaws comedically on display, subtle holiday feel goods of Seinfeld relatability.
Highlight is Liev Schrieber playing “smartest guy in the room” writer-type who loves indulging about his Kafkaesque novel and aristocracy. Parker Posey plays mostly blasé cool Posey (I’m not complaining) who chain smokes and has a weakness for said intellectual writer types (raises hand), and Hope Davis as adorable older sister tracking down her husband in…
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Career Opportunities 1991
I really love this movie, and not for the obvious reason, so here’s a little female perspective for you chuds.
Whaley is so incredibly charming as doofy outcast, never over-fixated with Josie, but relatable self-involved idiosyncratic Jim. Right on the cusp of the “mall movie” aka Clueless, Mallrats, etc. quirky shenanigans in the only place young people can convene after high school and before twenty-one. Includes intense flashbacks to the time I worked at PetSmart for the summer, not really…
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