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Fish & Cat 2013
"Does this festival have a champion? I mean will there be a winner?"
Here's one of the vanishingly small number of films I've seen that engages seriously with the idea (out of Tarr thru Van Sant) of long-take cinema as an unplayable video game. The iconic back-of-head walking simulator shots are here (often accompanied by attention-grabbing Michael Nyman-esque score), but more importantly there's a structural permeation of game grammar that's unmistakable.
In place of a setting, scenes are set on…
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The Spitfire Grill 1996
Look, I'm sure the three (3) credited dialogue coaches on this film worked hard, but there's nothing quite like a passel of working actors force-feeding spoken English through the cracked prism that is the Maine accent. Over here there's Will Patton giving his a healthy splash of Southern Comfort, and over there we have Marcia Gay Harden who's Katherine Hepburn from the chest and then sort of a Down East Moaning Myrtle when she goes up high. And in the…
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Imitation of Life 1959
Forgot that Lana Turner gets the part of a lifetime in a film by legendary Italian director "Amarico Felucci"
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Badlands 1973
Looked up a badland on Wikipedia and oh brother they look nothing like any landscape in this entire motion picture and you certainly could never drive a Cadillac through one even if you were Martin Sheen himself. The cinema of Terrence Malick transcends geological categories.
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All Too Well: The Short Film 2021
I watched short films for a living for 8 years so I'm professionally qualified to tell you that this blows.
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Asteroid City 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
- The Wes Anderson to Peter Greenaway to Chuck Jones pipeline?
- Starring Edward Norton as Tree Trunks.
- Not a DCP-hater by any means but if it's a mature cinema technology how does lateral motion still look so crazy? The stutter on all the tracking shots gave me slideshow eyes.
- There's no explaining Adrien Brody's filmography since about 2016. I dare you to do it.
- Bryan Cranston and Tom Hanks jockeying for Bill Murray's job when all…
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