This morning I woke up from a dream that involved me being, in a fittingly peculiar way where I existed in both a story world and a world where the story was a story, the Dread Pirate Roberts, and I think that dream was a prelude to my current ponderings—brought on by watching this movie that's so superb and engrossing that at several points I forgot I was watching it with someone with whom I spedran many parts of the…
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Children of Men 2006
The camerawork absolutely earns its canonization, but the sound storytelling is seriously on another level.
Jasper and Sid are all-time bit part supporting characters.
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Before Sunrise 1995
I walked into the bathroom immediately after this to look at my smile. Genuinely perfect. "Ecstatic truth" that I just heard Herzog talk about yesterday, because it's such immaculately crafted reality. So good it almost makes me scared to watch the next one, but I know that as soon as these two performances start up again I'm going to be right back there smiling, until the end, when I'm sure I'm going to be right back there with the same "oh come on!"
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The Bikeriders 2023
Mike Faist is my Ryan Gosling, my Timothée Chalamet, my Tom Hanks, my Meryl Streep, dare I say my Zendaya and my Austin Butler, Mike Faist is my James Dean, my Brando, Mike Faist is my John Barrymore, my Thespis, my idol… and now, with his camera and sound bag, Mike Faist is me.
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