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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024
Having had a few days to digest, I'm revising my rating down a little. As other reviewers note, it's a very immersive film about what it felt like to be alive and witnessing decolonization from a variety of places in the early 1960s, but like the Adam Curtis documentaries that are its closest comparison it clearly thinks of itself as far more of an original work of history than it is. I would strongly recommend this as an introduction to…
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Lawrence of Arabia 1962
A few stray thoughts that I am prioritizing getting down on "paper" over synthesizing into a coherent review:
First, this is a film adapted from one of the few historical episodes that lends itself to adaptation as a Western/Leatherstocking Tale with an English hero. The Western aspects: Wadi Rum more than serves as a Monument Valley. On a big screen, those gorgeous long desert shots seemed, if anything, both more perfect and more real than my own memories of the…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Reddit but in the specific way that I have a soft spot for (see also Community)
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