I haven't seen this since high school and half expected to find it grating or something. I'm curious to revisit Synecdoche NY as I suspect I've soured on Kaufman over time. Despite my hangups with his particular writing tics though this movie is just a hell of a good time. Gondry directed the shit out of it and managed to make everything feel so intuitive. You can cynically call it baby's first surrealism but go ahead jingle those keys in front of me I'm loving every minute of it Jerry!
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Zardoz 1974
Not a total slam dunk for me but I gotta respect it for many reasons. It's incredible what it manages to achieve under budget constraints. It's a high concept big swing rejection of action sci fi tropes. I got a lot of entertainment just out of watching Connery in this role, there's no shortage of ridiculous scenes that are performed with the utmost sincerity and professionalism from all involved, though with him every now and then I really thought I…
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Challengers 2024
Wow, I really did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did. For me, it's hard not to like a film, especially given the contemporary landscape, that gets so creative with the camera. Add in a killer score and I'm pretty much already there. But there's a lot of substance here too, individual competitive sports as a medium for character development, the literal battle of two different personalities (really three in the case of this movie) has some…
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Love & Pop 1998
With this film and Inland Empire re-entering the public consciousness I'm praying for future filmmakers to take
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