A tantalizing tale of planned and unplanned coincidences, all smoke and mirrors; a torrent of desires and secrets too taboo to be spoken aloud. Pure visual mastery from start to finish, every other moment framing the repressed lovers behind a prison of window bars or the false privacy of partitions and curtain blinds, always peeking through to see what's at the edge of their reach yet worlds away. Life imitates art as their spousal performance bleeds red into reality and…
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Gosford Park 2001
Came in expecting the precursor to Knives Out and left thinking I’d just seen a remake of Rules of the Game (which is more of a compliment than it might seem). These days you almost expect films with this stacked of a cast to flop, but Altman’s knack for ensemble work puts this in a steady and assured pair of hands. Fellowes does the bulk of the heavy lifting, though, offering quintessential attentiveness to the inner workings and politics of British…
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The Thin Red Line 1998
”You still believing in that beautiful light, are you? How do you do that? You’re a magician to me.” “I still see a spark in you.”
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War is innately abhorrent. There is nothing uplifting about seeing a man writhing in agony, screaming out for help, only to be left behind to bleed out to death. To see such cruelty, such suffering, such pain, it plagues a man’s soul, poisons the mind. War desensitizes a man to anguish, creating…
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My Cousin Vinny 1992
Unexpectedly loved this. It possesses such a great, genial self-referential type humor that openly acknowledges the film's inherent absurdity and silliness which manages even to alleviate the prospect of a grave death sentence.
The humor jumps back and forth, going from ironic to slapstick to hints of deadpan, particularly in the trial scenes. And yet the film never loses its identity, sticking to comedy rather than turning to drama while engaging a handful of running gags throughout the film which…
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