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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975
“A world full of Marvel and Netflix just puts Pasolini’s desire to make art so extreme as to reject easy consumerism into so much perspective, ya know?” he said, and put his Criterion edition of Salo on the shelf with the others, all lovingly arranged by spine number. “This film is more important than ever.”
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975
“Well, it's a hell of an act. What do you call yourselves?”
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The Cremator 1969
Director Juraj Herz’s stylizations here are immaculate, but he left me feeling like there might be a certain reductiveness in a story that almost de-historicizes and de-politicizes Nazi atrocities in favor of arthouse horror psychodrama. Then again, Juraj Herz himself was a Jewish concentration camp survivor, living in communist Czechoslovakia, and was really only able to make The Cremator thanks to the country’s period of liberalization in 1969. It’s a barbed and bitter film, and under such circumstances its barbs don’t need to be sharp — blunt force does just as well.
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The Brutalist 2024
Corbett’s command of time and aesthetic and his characters (as objects for the camera) is totalizing, but he puts it all to work on an epic that feels, for 3/4’s of its runtime, entirely safe and non-confrontational — much like the epics of yesteryear, though Corbet is too much the aesthete for any of the weepy, swelling stylizations of old Hollywood. His handling of his themes, however, is just as clumsy as any crowd-pleaser there’s ever been, perhaps more so.…
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Until the End of the World 1991
A sci-fi romance that sacrifices overall formal perfection for sheer epic scope and moments of deep emotional resonance, whether they be humorous, heartfelt, tragic, or purely hypnagogic. At five hours long (only watch the director’s cut, please), logically I should be wanting to write an entire wall of text about why I love this movie so much, but words fail in the face of it — seem entirely pointless in fact. In that respect, the moral of the story feels like…
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Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
“Superhero movies remember what three-act structure is challenge” difficulty level impossible.
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