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The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2024
flawed but good with a really striking final third.
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An Unfinished Film 2024
bawling my eyes out at the film forum remembering my zoom 21st birthday
political, historic, documentary, narrative, real, fake. the first truly great covid film and such a privilege to hear the man himself speak on the innate politics of not just film, but all moving images, from cinema to cellphone.
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Soft & Quiet 2022
“We’ve all been brainwashed.”
Excruciating. I considered leaving multiple times. Shot in true continuous format (like, as a feature-length play without cuts), Soft & Quiet is an inescapable and deeply disturbing day in the life of a group of white supremacist women as they commit a hate crime. Massive trigger warning.
Hard to feel like this isn’t just pornographic? I guess if you believe in conveying a reality, no matter how harsh or gratuitous, in the name of social commentary, then this…
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It Is in Us All 2022
“Just a fracture.”
I dunno, I’m kind of speechless!
Short, simple, stripped-down, and yet swelling with such immense and intricate feeling like it’s constantly threatening to burst. A story saturated by men in front of the camera but unmistakably haunted by the spectral gaze of the women who inhabit it.
Campbell-Hughes attributes a sci-fi subtlety to the film but to me it reads as more hyperbolic: the Irish countryside rendered in abstract and flattened terms. Piercing lights cut through the…
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