Saw this with the girlfriend and some friends at the local cinema on the same day they charged a guy with the assassination of the CEO of United Healthcare. Couldn’t help but feel like Kurosawa’s kidnapper was just like the 26 year old who’s chronic back pain and impossible healthcare debt pushed him to gun down a man in the street. Art imitates life, imitates art ect. Looking up at that house in the freezing winter and the scorching summer,…
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Romeo + Juliet 1996
i am known amongst my close friends and family as a devout Baz Luhrmann hater, but good lord this film is an exception. the perfect adaptation of shakespeare - brought forward to 90s california perfectly. the genius of shakespeare’s writing elevated by the sheer insanity of baz’s one-time genius alike.
leo and claire danes have such an obscene amount of chemistry (the fish tank… the realisation at the party…, the pool scene!), harold perrineau as the unstable and thunderous mercurio…
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Apocalypse Now 1979
local cinema playing the final cut. what an experience. a spiral into hell (including an appearance by the french. very fitting.)
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Where the Wild Things Are 2009
I could say a lot about this film - maybe one day when I am more emotionally coherent I will come back and say such things - but all I can say tonight is just how much the voice work in this film does for it overall. To hear two of my favourite characters in all of television, Tony Soprano and Claire Fisher, embody such intensely relatable and emotionally vulnerable *things* is a delight. Of course, Dano, Whitaker, Cooper and…
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