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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
It's a task itself to reckon with Killers of the Flower Moon. The latest from Martin Scorsese, clocking at nearly three and a half hours long, is a colossal tale of the sociopathy of American history, an intimate and historical look at the murders that ravaged the Osage nation in 1920s Oklahoma. Upon this grand scale, "Killers" sets to bring to light a horrific and shameful chapter hidden far too long in a mainstream, white-centric culture. For Scorsese, who has…
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Yi Yi 2000
It starts with a wedding and ends with a funeral. To limit Yi Yi as just another foreign drama would be doing a great disservice to Edward Yang's final opus, a sprawling yet heartbreakingly intimate look into the lives of a Taiwanese family. But just about any simple plot synopsis hardly does this any justice. To summarize feels reductive; putting any of this into words is impossible, so much of its power justly indescribable. Nothing feels out of place, Yang…
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Out 1 1971
March 4 - 7
Monolithic, dare I say, life-altering work? The apotheosis of the Nouvelle Vague (killer double-feature with Eustache' Mother and the Whore, also featuring Léaud). Very much of its time and place in a post-May '68 world, reflections of malaise and skepticism, of internalized fantasies and anxiety; constructing a plane more real than reality — has there ever been a portrait as stripped bare from the mind of its creator? I'm all but left in shambles.
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L'Amour fou 1969
The slow decay of a relationship between a theatre director and his wife, unemphatic, intrusive and layered with meta-text. I find myself endlessly enamoured by Rivette's fascination with story structure, always in conversation with time. Duration is key here (252 minutes). Not only does the stretching of time remove the need for concision, also allowing for the director's improvisatory, experimental inclinations to manifest. It takes getting used to, but with any Rivette, the all-enveloping style is well worth the epic runtime.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
Major. Truly marvellous something like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse even exists, I think I got goosebumps from the opening alone. A technical marvel from an animation standpoint, somehow improving upon its landmark predecessor in the department. The phenomenal work animators have put into this has to be acknowledged. Just stunning—refining, upping and mastering the blend of stylistic animation required, seamlessly incorporated, overwhelming; sensory overload at times but breathtaking. Mind-blowing artistry at its most expressive and creative.
Yet beyond the awe-spiring…
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