No matter how many times I watch this, that first sequence where Caan has to get back to his room before she walks through the door still has me screeching. Masterclass in tension. Rest of the film is still super sturdy, super enjoyable, all of the side characters drawn with an admirable detail, I love the spicy police couple.
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The Last of England 1987
So deliberate, brutal, beautiful, great to see something this restorative to my senses at the GFT - they even turned up the volume for this one!
Will be turning some of these double exposure shots over in my head for the next few weeks, for sure.
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Mickey 17 2025
If I was being extremely generous, I'd say that each subsequent English-language Bong film is getting worse on purpose; the compounded incoherency and hollow archetypes of each script successfully reflecting an increasingly maddening, meaningless, everything-everywhere-all-at-once-kinda world where ideas are zipping and zapping without any purchase and where depth of feeling is sought for solely by the heroes - the few and far between.
I'm not being generous, though. I disliked this intensely, and resent my time with it. The genre-juggle…
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The Brutalist 2024
It's all rotten.
Has its cake, then eats it, then spits it out. Bitter and cynical and all the more inspiring for it. Nowhere near as big as it seems.
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