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Local Hero 1983
It feels somewhat bizarre to watch this movie in 2019. The protagonists are oil executives trying to build a drilling site off the coast of Scotland, and want to pay off the locals (who only care about how much they can get out of the deal) to leave. Years after the Deepwater Horizon spill and as Climate Change becomes an increasingly urgent concern, it feels strange to watch a film that makes the heads of these companies into heroes. Yet…
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Mulholland Drive 2001
I’m not much of a fan of surreal films, but Mulholland Drive is strangely enthralling. The film feels a bit less abstract than other Lynch films (particularly Eraserhead), but will nonetheless require viewers to come up with their own interpretations of just what exactly is going on.
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