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The Brutalist 2024
Rigor and speed (among many other things) characterized the viewing experience for me, which is intriguing upon coming out of the theater to realize that such a lengthy runtime felt so fast and engaging. It's welcome and refreshing especially recalling getting bored during OPPENHEIMER or lost during THE IRISHMAN, but I can't help but wonder where the movement of it all - of train tracks, buses, roads, even that left-to-right opening credits, and that glorious, crazy good, momentous score -…
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Mulholland Drive 2001
I want this raging fever dream of 21st century American entertainment, culture, and psychosexuality to be MEMORIALIZED as an elegy for the END of America's 20th century cultural hegemony (not a coincidence it was made around the turn of the millennium!). The end of genre, the end of image, the end of either reality or fantasy in history and at present, and the end of either hetero or homo romance. May EVERYTHING after this movie from Hollywood be known as…
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