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Mother Night 1996
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
To watch a film based on one of your favorite books is a tall order. To watch it amidst a world where rapists and sex traffickers are invited to the White House as kin while our allies are turned aside and vilified is another beast entirely.
This was, for all intents and purposes, a rather excellent…
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Eraserhead 1977
Took 3 friends and my fiancé to this movie and only one of them will talk to me. On a completely unrelated note, does anyone need a roommate?
I love you David Lynch. You were a little freak from day one and I respect the hell out of you for it. Eraserhead is a film that will never, could never be for everyone but it’s sure as hell for me. You could not make this on accident. And to me,…
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Decision to Leave 2022
I decided to come back to this after learning — yes people do that sometimes — that my main criticism of my first viewing (the dramatic tone shift) is actually a pretty common concept in modern Korean cinema. When I thought about it, pretty much every Korean film I have seen has this feature. With this in mind I enjoyed Decision to Leave a lot more. It’s far more detailed and beautiful than I first gave it credit.
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Sing Sing 2023
Brother we’re here to become human again.
Behind all anger there is sadness. To quote Shakespeare, “Wrath makes him deaf.” Deaf to emotions, to our soul. It is Shakespeare or rather that very wrath and grief that sits at the center of Sing Sing. A film about a Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, a theater troupe inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility. An organization that allows inmates to act, to live, to let go. To shed the labels of the society…
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