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Paris, Texas 1984
What can I say about this film that hasn’t already been said?
It’s shockingly tame on a formal level. Wim Wenders exquisitely captures the surreality of the American West, in all its glowing resplendence. But while beautiful, the emphasis on the neon, bright lights, and austere landscapes feels unsubstantiated in the script. This is what has always given me pause about Paris… it feels like a noir, but it’s very much not. It feels transcendent and even existential, but how…
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Daisies 1966
This is just a really complete film. What I loved most about it was that while the main characters were simply ungovernable, so was the film itself. It felt like the two leads could do anything at any time, and they did, but so did the materiality of the film itself, as it shifted from black and white to color and many other visual effects in between. This formal and narrative parallel was clutch, and it gets to the essence…
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