This film contains almost too much beauty, poignancy, charm, and poeticism for my heart to handle.
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Piaffe 2022
For me, this was a three star story, but I have to add every bit of a star and a half for the cinematography. I was spellbound by the glorious 16mm grain teaming with dust specks and light leak, combined with a vibrant feast of colors perfectly incorporated into every shot, not to mention the fastidiousness symmetry on par with that of Yasujirō Ozu. If I ever met Ann Oren I’d personally thank her for making a film so beautiful to watch.
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Wicked 2024
I am so glad to have experienced the cinéma spectaculaire that is this masterpiece on opening night in a theater packed full of people cheering, laughing, and sobbing. It does everything right that a musical epic can possibly do, and then somehow (magically?) does even more.
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Night Moves 1975
Within the first few minutes, Hackman's character, a jockish P.I. who took up the profession after his glory days as a pro footballer, disses the French director Éric Rohmer by claiming that he'd once seen one of his films and that it was "like watching paint dry," which, for me personally, established him right off the bat as someone I wasn't overly eager to root for (there's also no way in hell this man would have known who Éric Rohmer…
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