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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Try the cock, Albert. It's a delicacy. And you know where it's been.
What an absolutely astonishing movie. The design of this film, from the costumes to the sets, is bursting with creativity. Every gruesome detail here is part of Greenaway's composition. The cuts between rooms, where the color of the suits change and the soundtrack kicks in, gave me goosebumps every time. The way the soundtrack is used reminded me of how Yumeji's Theme is used in In The…
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Videodrome 1983
Death to Videodrome. Long live the new flesh.
Replace "video" with "social media" or "the internet" in most of this movie, and its message becomes even more horrifyingly prescient. How a "frequency" or a thought we consume can grow like a tumor.
Cronenberg creates such a tense atmosphere in this movie. I'm a huge sucker for 80s practical effects, and the body horror in here is ridiculously cool. Still looks fantastic today too.
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Barry Lyndon 1975
Like watching 24 paintings a second for three hours. The story is so engrossing from the very first scene, the soundtrack is perfect for setting the scene and settling you into a near meditative filmic rhythm, and the cinematography is masterful and meticulous with every minute detail. Redmond Barry is such an interesting and deeply flawed protagonist, but I still felt a great deal of sympathy for him, especially with his son Bryan. His rise and fall feels poetic and…
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