Star ratings are irrelevant here. D'uh, it's "bad." Who cares? More than ever it also feels endearingly – even touchingly – human in an increasingly un-human time. And one wonders: if Edward D. Wood Jr. were still at it today, would he be making singularly odd and idiosyncratic "bad" amateur productions like this one –– or blandly, unremarkably mediocre movies propped up by ho-hum CGI effects and an A.I.-generated script?
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Napoleon 2023
Shockingly excellent! Eye-poppingly gorgeous, superbly acted, perfectly paced (stately in the very best sense), at times unexpectedly tender and touching, and delightfully perversely hilarious. I laughed. I cried. I fucking loved every minute of it, and genuinely can't wait to experience it all over again.
Alas, while we'll never have Kubrick's long-gestating Napoleon, we now have Ridley Scott's Barry Lyndon, which is a much closer next-best-thing than any unreconstruced fan of the big, grand, sprawling period epic (comme moi!) could've possibly, realistically hoped.
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Les Filles du Roi 2023
A Vancouver local-theatre success story (full disclosure: I am slightly/informally acquainted with somewhere around a third or quarter of the people involved in making this movie) that may now find a wider audience in film form. The only trouble is, it never quite makes up its mind as to whether it's meant as a distinctly cinematic filmization of a stage musical, as a filmed stage musical with some exterior scenes, or some Dancer in the Dark- or Dogville-like Brechtian in-between…
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