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  About Dry Grasses 2023

  ★★★★★ Added

  With 2011's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan attained the mature style which has since become familiar over three further films. Three of these four films have been set somewhere in Anatolia; three run longer than three hours; all use their running times to explore their characters in depth, featuring many protracted conversation scenes, and all feature oneiric imagery or sequences to limited and varying degrees, but nonetheless effectively. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia was about…

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  Anora 2024

  Watched 31 Oct 2024

  Listening to Sean Baker on the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast in 2015, it seems that a version of Anora was developed prior to Tangerine, the film which marked the beginning of his breakout towards name recognition status.

  I actually had something I was developing for a while. [Karren Karagulian -- ] He's an Armenian American and he has very close ties to the Russian community in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. [...] We wrote this script called Caviar that starts off like…

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  Lovely Rita 2001

  ★★★ Added 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Beast 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2024 4

  Bertrand Bonello's The Beast is a bold, complex and, I found, moving film. One third of the film is a costume drama adaptation of Henry James's story The Beast in the Jungle; an even greater portion is devoted to an angst-ridden vignette of LA life in the 2010's, and these two parts are interspersed with futuristic world-building segments, set in the 2040's, which evoke elements of sci-fi films such as Her and 2001: A Space Odyssey, among others. One part…