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ldtaylor

Favorite films

  • Last Year at Marienbad
  • Blade Runner
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Before Sunset

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  • Free Guy

  • No Time to Die

    ★★★

  • The King's Man

    ★★

  • Drive Me Crazy

    ★★★

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  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

    ★★★

    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald is the next chapter in the Harry Potter universe. David Yates return to direct his sixth film in the franchise. This endeavor finds him using the most special effects to date. There are grand displays of magic and (of course) fantastic beasts. The opening scene alone finds our villain performing marvelous magic while riding atop, and under, a flying carriage in a thunderstorm. Eddie Redmayne returns as Newt Scamander: the eccentric magizooligist. Redmayne brings…

  • Kubo and the Two Strings

    Kubo and the Two Strings

    Kubo and the Two Strings is an ambitious animated stop motion film. Directed by Travis Knight, the film follows the story of a young boy traveling the world in order to find a magical suit of armor that will help defeat his evil grandfather. This video essay chooses to approach the film thematic elements. The movie revolves around themes of loss and death and the video chooses to focus on these. I think if anyone were to watch the movie…

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  • Why Don't You Play in Hell?

    Why Don't You Play in Hell?

    Why Don’t You play in Hell is a zany film directed by Sion Sono. It takes many stories and puts them into one grand, over the top finale. The scene I am picking this week is the scene during the final battle (1:45:39 – 1:52:10). Herein, Sono uses the camera to highlight the film’s absolute absurdism. When this sequence begins we see Kojo finally do something in battle. After he slashes the enemy we get a shot of him truly…

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