Don’t mind just another tossed off banger from Soderbergh + Koepp (but also their best collab so far). Loved all of the light in this one, bouncing off glass, water and plastic surfaces of surveillance, procedure and suspicion. Easily one of the hottest portrayals of marriage under stress committed to screen. Great cast overall, particularly Marisa Abela (but that won’t get me to see the Amy Winehouse movie, sorry). Hitchcock can eat his heart out with that movie-watching shot. At Nitehawk Dumburg.
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Persuasion 1995
What a pleasure: Seeing this almost 30 years later it’s clearly an aesthetic bridge between the two most famous Pride and Prejudice adaptations — the use of handheld camerawork, the score, even the effing hand flex, and the way the costuming looks lived-in and appropriate to every character’s financial circumstance clearly marks this as a heavy influence on P&P 2005. The two leads are terrific, but I’d forgotten the presence of Simon Russell Beale and easily one of my favorite…
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Nickel Boys 2024
Glad i waited to see this a) in a theater and b) after the Oscars, as I would’ve been stewing over this not winning every single award. Colson Whitehead adaptations now 2/2 for being the most original visual narrative stories I’ve seen from this century in two separate mediums. “A rat done bit my sister Nell/Her face and arms began to swell/I can't pay no doctor bills/Ten years from now I'll be payin' still…” At BAM Rose Cinemas.
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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 2005
Immensely charming, as is the baseline for just about all of Robert Rodriguez’s movies for General Audiences (the apex of which may still be Spy Kids 2). Without the benefit of viewing in 3D, this still manages to be trippy af. A little hard to believe that Lil Lautner is just 3 years away from starring in Twilight.
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