Classic. The nebula space battle and Spock's death and funeral are some of the best scenes in all of sci-fi cinema. The rest of the movie is pretty good too.
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Eraserhead 1977
This is maybe the most viscerally affecting film I've ever seen. There were moments during this when I felt like I was gonna throw up honestly, and to be clear I think this is a good thing. In his first feature film Lynch creates an entire aesthetic world in less than ninety minutes, I can't imagine what seeing this in the 1970s must have been like. However, for all the dreamlike imagery and rattling sound design in the film, the…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
My first viewing of this was overwhelming (in a good way), as you could expect. However, this viewing has really crystallized the experience for me. I believe this film to be Miyazaki's meditation on legacy and the act of artistic creation and how it relates to the wider world. Both Mahito and the Tower Master can be seen as analogues to Miyazaki himself. Mahito, like Miyazaki, is growing up in the shadow of World War II in an affluent family…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Man what an evil country we all live in. I’m not even close to ready to begin unpacking this movie and all that is has to say, but I do have some thoughts I want to get down on paper. Not only is this movie extremely well made, I think it’s extremely important. Very rarely do we as a country have a public reckoning about our horrendous past, and I think it’s great that an artist of Scorsese’s stature has…
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