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黒澤 明 • 今 敏 • 庵野 秀明
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Tropic Thunder 2008
Movie about making movies but funny haha. Yeah this is probably the wildest Hollywood spoof and best comedy that I’ve ever seen in my life, with a surprising level of depth when you consider everything it offers up. Never again will a film like this be produced and commercially released—it’s pop off cast ensures that it will forever remain a defiant product of its time and a classic, in every sense, for decades to come.
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22 Jump Street 2014
A pretty great sequel, and plays with that very idea quite skillfully. There’s a few more twists in this one compared to the last that threw me for a loop. The budget bump was nice, but it’s all about the jokes here and 22’s are a lot funnier to me, especially Schmidt’s slam poetry run. Sad to hear that the final film was cancelled—it was legendary work. My name Jeff.
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Lady Bird 2017
What would be a conventional coming-of-age story is reformatted for the modern era; its typical narrative characteristics delivered in a way which feels oddly familiar and simultaneously novel. Each and every one of Lady Bird’s scenes are inventive, engaging, matchless, and authentic, with the dysfunctional dynamic between mother and daughter being the most lambent of all. It remains a prodigious first film for a promising young director.
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Miss Hokusai 2015
One can spend plenty of time delving into Miss Hokusai’s Ghibli-level employment of Pure Land Buddhism and Japanese mythology in conjunction with the historical figures that comprise the film’s cast. Various spiritual topics, such as Amitābha, ikiryō, saṃsāra, yokai, and the appearance of Bodhisattvas via visions, are all covered or referenced throughout the movie in an attempt to demonstrate the apparitional influence on these artists’ work. Historically speaking, the manner in which shunga prints were addressed was most interesting to…
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