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The Bad and the Beautiful 1952
Pretty goofy and simple, though I do find a 70 year old industry movie light years more enjoyable than anything produced in the last 30 years.
Lana Turner’s episode is particularly boring - though her deeply decent, easy-crying agent was so lovely.
The cinematography is excellent, luxurious black and white. And shooting a flashlight beam in 1952 involved so much choreography - I can’t believe VM played it for so long, so wide.
And Lana Turner spinning out in that…
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Green Fish 1997
His least excellent movie for sure but it’s his first right? If it isn’t I don’t care to see anything earlier. It’s def the kind that people can enthusiastically call promising. His scene work is very mature and that family picnic at the midpoint is upsetting and dynamic and compelling. Best of all, it finally let me know what the movie was interested in after nearly an hour of a pretty choppy, undramatic episodic story.
He sure does like the…
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Conclave 2024
Excellent. More Vatican noir plz.
Looks great. Direction is precise, assured, and suited to the material. AQotWF had some whizz-bangery that was right for that movie and wouldn’t be right for this and wouldn’t you know it?? He adopted a different style! Refreshing, that.
Visually wry (sparingly) but also sincere and moving, and never trivializing or condescending.
I am already dreading all kinds of glib hot takes and “well actually”-ism thats gonna gain steam once Oscar season is fully underway. There’ll be bad faith think pieces and barroom blather that’ll make me sigh. The movie does good work. I like this movie.
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The Deep End 2001
You did it to me again Criterion. You include a forgotten movie in a collection w a theme I love and then I watch and I think oh. Ok. Sick curation bro.
They had a beginning, the beginning of the middle, then nothing and then an ending hug. Which made for a good pitch but as it turns out made for styleless/ custodial direction, styleless screenwriting, a ludicrous Loan Shark w a Heart of Gold co-lead, and the very good…
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