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Irreversible 2002
Back in 2012, I had an article published that focused on Irreversible's usage of cinematography from a cognitivist perspective. I figured I'd link it here for anyone interested! Just go to page 17. :)
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Scrubbers 1982
Scum: Gang rapes, getting bludgeoned to death by a sock filled with billiard balls, suicide
Scrubbers: Dance parties and sing-a-longs, shit from a bucket being slung onto others, suicide
...Okay, so maybe this is just slightly less harsh than Alan Clarke's masterpiece of misery. Obviously deeply indebted to it to the point of essentially being its companion/sister piece, but with more focus on the interpersonal relationships of our characters and less the pure authoritarian brutality of borstals (though, to be…
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The Swimming Pool 1977
Insufferable. And that's before reaching the fucking song-and-dance sequence.
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Babylon 2022
70mm print was sticking around in Toronto for one final week, so obviously I had to go again. Gosh, I sure do wish more releases would get the 70mm treatment, isn't it all just so soft and warm? The visual equivalent to a vinyl record's gentle, firelog-evoking crackle, really.
My first review already went over a bunch of what I felt were some of the more salient points surrounding film discourse on this, and a second viewing hasn't changed my…
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The Brutalist 2024
TIFF 2024
Whose American Dream are you really living, anyway?
Far too much in this film to discuss at any real length here; probably need a week to digest everything. Would likely make for a killer double-billing with something like There Will Be Blood. And while films such as that and The Godfather are likely to (rightly) continue being thrown around in relation to this, I actually started thinking of William Faulkner's writings and their precision at slicing through the…
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