Director Bong Joon-ho returns to a couple of his favorite things: class structure and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. I’m happy to report it’s much closer to the bullseye than his previous mashup. While Mickey isn’t perfect, it’s very entertaining, the world-building and effects work are terrific, and the cast features a bunch of great characters (Robert Pattinson in particular wins this year’s Cronenberg award for a skilled execution of multiple characters.
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Megalopolis 2024
Not so long ago, I was friends with a very talented man named Ralph Eggleston. Our friendship went back to college, and I was lucky enough to work with him, starting from the first feature projects I worked on.
Ralph was a Coppola freak. He loved cinema, and followed Coppola’s career passionately - acknowledging his flaws, but celebrating his commitment to the art of film. It was infectious.
One of the projects we read about in school (this is the…
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Where The Robots Grow 2024
DNF
I watched about 45 minutes. This is purportedly the first feature film created by AI. I’m not sure how to parse this definition - the film has credits, so it’s difficult to understand what the people in the crew did. Was it all about entering prompts? Was footage generated, then assembled by AI? I’ll have to read more about it.
The portion I watched made sense, but as you might guess, it’s pretty sluggish and overly familiar. Thinking back…
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