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Moneyball 2011
I love this movie. It has everything I love: Oakland, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, data analytics in sports. I just love data in sports. Love reading about xg, xg chain, progressive passes played and received, pressures per 90, passes per defensive actions (ppd), the whole works. Don’t even get me started on visualizations. I love a good scattergram, a good data radar. Also when John Henry shows up that was my Nick Fury Avengers initiative moment. Frustrating to see how much…
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Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
Hiroshima mon amour (1959) as the very title intimates, collides together seemingly incompatible subjects—love and war, memory and forgetting, life and death. Director Alain Resnais and screenwriter Marguerite Duras use their background in nontraditional, narrative cinematic forms to create a highly meditative and equally visceral study on the nature of trauma. Coming from a background of writing prose, Duras’ poetic sensibilities strikingly weave together with Resnais’ own background in heartbreakingly earnest documentary filmmaking. Combined, Duras and Resnais marry form and…
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Zombie Flesh Eaters 1979
As is tradition with every Fulci movie there is one kill that is so uniquely grotesque that I just have to tip my hat at its extremity. Fulci is such a visual filmmaker. I’m convinced you could watch any of his films on mute and follow it all the same. When I watch Once Upon A Time in the West I’m convinced that Charles Bronson is the greatest actor ever even if I dispassionately know this to be hyperbole or untrue. In that same vein, whenever I watch a Fulci film I’m convinced he’s the greatest director ever
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Pieces 1982
I cannot believe this wasn’t directed by an Italian. Kinda batshit insane. Dont know where to begin with this. I have to assume this is self aware parody but also there’s a distinct sincerity that I’m not sure how to account for. The gore ranges from wildly silly to genuinely shocking. I love it when European exploitation films are “set in Boston.” I would love to rewatch with a crowd
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2 Days in Paris 2007
I generally feel I’m pretty lenient with my criticism and I don’t wanna stray into hyperbole but this was the single worst piece of media I have ever consumed. Previously this title was held by a driver’s safety video I watched from driver’s ed that traumatized me with images of dead bodies yet somehow on god’s green earth in all his infinite wisdom he gave us this abomination of a film. Could genuinely be used to coerce suspects into confessions.…
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A New Leaf 1971
Kinda hard to put into words just how much I loved this. I haven’t laughed so consistently throughout a movie in so long like I did with this one. Walter Matthau is so unbelievably good in this. Elaine May is just so brilliant. I think few filmmakers have understood men the way she does. There’s a certain emotional turning point that lesser filmmakers and actors wouldn’t be able to pull off but that here was totally transcendent and really moved me. At parts reminded me a wonderful combination of the nastiness and scratching critique of Buñuel with the cleverness and sincerity of Billy Wilder
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