It’s been 23 years and this film still completely slaps. We are so caught in the banal death fugue of MCU and Netflix originals that it seems like we just can’t make fun adventures like this anymore. Also people go on about it being stuffed with too much CGI, but who cares? At least it’s aged better than LOTR, which now looks like someone slapped it together in Garry’s Mod.
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Ran 1985
Rewatched after 15-odd years. What is there to say? It's a film that is stunning in its scope, ambition and emotion. Kurosawa using colour means, as ever, a beautiful and hyper-realised world, brimming with beauty and symbolism. And, in Hidetora, so clearly a stand-in for Kurosawa himself - a compelling layer of bittersweet reflection.
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Dinner Rush 2000
Utterly enthralling. Shades of Altman as we eavesdrop a dozen different dramas in the cosy warmth of a Tribeca trattoria, punctuated by the steel-drenched, and firey mania of the station downstairs. A proprietor caught between nouveau cuisine and nostalgia, between the mob and family, and between grief and vengeance, oversees the film's frenetic entanglement of dramas. Aiello is supreme here, and the pacing and careful control of Giraldi's storytelling is nothing short of masterful.
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Mr. Klein 1976
Just wow. An absolute descent into madness, a fever of misplaced identity/ies, and a portrait of how fascism blossoms. Delon perfect as the man who just can't let go - of the mystery, of his ego, of anything - in the face of ever-growing danger. Losey's camera does some wonderful things in, and with, lavish apartments, grimy flats, cobbled streets, mildewed country houses and the Citroens of the gendarmerie.
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