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Speed Racer 2008
It doesn’t matter if we change [cinema], what matters is that we let it change us.
To which the Wachowksis add amidst a digital reverie: why not both?
The heart on this entry is the biggest, juiciest heart I have ever left.
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Last Year at Marienbad 1961
Okay do we talk about Resnais enough? Like this is the Art Cinema I need in my life. Intriguing and vague without being exhausting, inexplicably gorgeous or graceful or extremely well-composed in every shot, an equal parts ominous and somber score — and Delhpine Seyrig is a little overwhelming, frankly. Like the entire time she's onscreen. And once it's over. She might be the secret here. Like she is already a fixture of my own non-diegetic memory. I might be thinking about her in this movie next year.
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Pink Flamingos 1972
On paper, this is — in literally every way — Not For Me™. But look: I laughed my ass off while sitting in a row of friends who were laughing their ass off while we were in a crowd of people laughing their ass off. There were no asses left in the wake of this, frankly.
I don't even know how to rate this as a movie, but the experience was — at a minimum — 5 stars. On 35mm too.
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Law and Order 1969
My uncle has been a volunteer Mounted Police Officer for several years (he's very passionate about the whole thing, God bless him). At a gathering he told us that the horses they ride are considered police officers, such that you can be charged with assaulting a police officer if you harass one in any way. My family and I could barely contain laughter at the notion that a horse could be an officer of the law (just imagine a horse…
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