Forever mad at the Toni Collette snub.
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Blow Out 1981
Having only seen Body Double and nothing else from De Palma, I was blown away and caught off-guard by Blow Out. The film’s just brimming with deliberate care and thought, carefully balancing sleaze, paranoia, and genuine thrills; giving homage to schlocky horror while also serving as a love-letter to analogue filmmaking. The editing, sound design, and blocking were phenomenal. Travolta was a great lead. And THAT ending… A perfect storm of a movie.
Would make for an interesting double-feature with Bogdanovich’s Targets.
(Watched on the Criterion 4K blu-ray, stunning restoration and such insightful extras).
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Universal Language 2024
#MIFF2024
What a treat. Rankin et al. pulled off such a distinctive vision, a balancing act of whimsy and sombreness draped across the strikingly-shot beige brutalism of Farsi-speaking Winnipeg. So much unsaid that I’m still trying to parse out, threads of diaspora guilt and displacement jumped out at me. I wish I had more familiarity with Iranian cinema to appreciate it even more, so keen to revisit this in the future. Fave screening from this year’s MIFF so far.
Lucky to have Rankin and Ila Firouzabadi for the screening and QnA!
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Death Becomes Her 1992
The proto-Substance! Fun, snappy, pure unadulterated camp. Streep + Hawn were fantastically cunty, loved seeing Bruce Willis in such an offbeat role be almost stole the show. Highly rewatchable.
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Shin Godzilla 2016
Bureaucracy kills.
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Poor Things 2023
Poor Things is a riot!! Lanthimos crafted a wickedly funny and daringly original film about the pleasures and agony of life; an unconventional coming-of-age story, framed as reimagining of Frankenstein, with a liberal dose of sexual liberation and dash of Lanthimos’ peculiar sense of humor. The world-building is fully-realized and immersive as the film looks magical in a fucked-up way, like a grimy pastel steampunk dream with off-colored clouds and stench of desperation (in other words: it looks sick!).
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BEEF 2023
As equally unhinged as it is heartfelt, Beef is a wildly original and captivating exploration of intergenerational trauma and rage. Ali Wong and Steven Yeun killed it as leads, as both managed to match each other’s twisted energy and vulnerability. Lee Sung Jin wrote the flawed characters with such depth that made them so irresistible (finished this in one sitting). I had high expectations and was still blown away by their willingness to make something as tenderly deranged as this.
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