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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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Freaky Tales 2024
At the Grand Lake with the cast and crew in attendance. Like being at a party. Several of the actors I recognized from friends of friends so that was interesting. Grand Lake forever
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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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The Conversation 1974
So alienating, lonely, haunting, and terrifying. I love it. Perhaps my favorite Coppola, not least of which is because it’s a City Movie. Also I think my favorite Hackman performance, likely because it’s his least “Hackman” role and asks him to replace his usual boisterousness with an incurable loneliness and paranoia. That last shot is just gold
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