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Les Affaires publiques 1934
Bresson's first film, a short absurdist comedy. Among Bresson's many virtues as a filmmaker, a rich sense of humor isn't really the first (or second or third or fourth or, etc.) thing anyone would associate him with, but this is pretty funny! Someone more flexible than me would have to take a stab at tying this, aesthetically and thematically, to the filmmaker he would become. The only surviving copy of it available to watch seems to be a 240p file…
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Black Bag 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Fun! Soderbergh's form is pretty effortless here and it moves along at a good, entertaining clip. The screenplay is too prone to overstatement and winking, and the movie is oddly tensionless and has some of the air sucked out of it when it becomes clear that the two (very good) leads, when finally forced to play their hand and choose their relationship over their work, still end up as the good guys and manage to prevent a geopolitical catastrophe and…
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The Puppetmaster 1993
I have not seen this film, but why the hell does Letterboxd's poster for it say "THE PUPPERMASTER" or am I just having a stroke?
EDIT: Hey, someone finally changed it.
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Joe Pera: Slow & Steady 2023
Cubes. For my boys.
I was very lucky to see Joe Pera perform in Great Falls just a couple of months ago, so I'm glad the material he used wound up in a special so I can relive it as much as I want now. The Dr. Pepper joke made me almost cry with laughter live, still just as good this time around. Joe the god. Now bring back the show, Adult Swim.
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