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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024
Ken Burns can only dream of making something this rich and true, this masterful and expert.
It’s amazing how much a modicum of historical materialism can elevate what’s already brilliant form to an exalted level eons above typical bourgeois art house documentaries. This film dazzles, educates and most importantly lights in you a fire to jump up in your seat and fight with every breath for the people of the Congo.Translated from by -
24 Hour Party People 2002
Another all-time fave. I probably find myself watching it once every year or so. It seems like a simple fun time but it’s actually a brilliant movie, deceptively so.
Typically a movie that looks this poor in visual quality, shot on DV tapes, is that way because of lack of proper funds (which might or might not be the case with this) but typically doesn’t make up for it in other ways. This movie not only makes up for it…Translated from by
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Rushmore 1998
Haven’t seen in about a decade but holds up in certain way— something I can’t say for anything he’s made after Darjeeling Limited.
This and Tennenbaums were the two big ones he wrote with Owen Wilson (bottle rocket is a little underbaked imo), the latter being the last one he did with Wilson before he started writing with Noah Baumbach and later Roman Coppola. To name just one aspect, there’s a marked difference in the flow of his dialogue, a…
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The Brown Bunny 2003
Probably one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen but also includes some of the most beautiful images of rainy highways, gas stations and salt flats. It’s amazing how consistently Vincent Gallo takes gold and turns it into cold shit. It’s also amazing how much this reactionary idiot can preoccupy himself with real working class ennui in hyper-real and typically undepicted American working class settings and yet constantly miss the mark on any sort of real perspective or meaning. It’s…
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