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Light of Day 1987
Michael J Fox's dad is seen watching this Minnesota/Cleveland game: www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN198510040.shtml
The pitcher, Dennis Burtt, was basically a real life Bill Durham, spending 14 years in the minor leagues, including with teammate Kevin Costner: www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-16-sp-1947-story.html
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Good Time 2017
A green Sprite bottle, given almost a mythical introduction in a frenetic monologue, slips out of the hand of a character and roles into a puddle of water. The camera, finally imparted from its intense close-ups to a God's eye long shot, lingers just for a second as it rolls into a puddle where it could be misconceived as trash. An object of everyday life that has been signified with narrative agency (A MacGuffin up there with the Arc of…
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Moonrise Kingdom 2012
I could talk about how this film's structure finally achieves the blissful melancholy that has been at the heart of all of Wes Anderson's films. I could talk about the precision of his framing and tracking shots, and how often he finds visual comedy through a perfect edit, or the slight entrance of new material into the frame. I could talk about how depressing the film is, the hints of both a traumatizing past, and that in a way, Sam…
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