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Touch of Evil 1958
Approaching what would be my 2,000th film, so decided to make it a big one.
Even in a presentation as pristine as this one (the 4K version of the 1998 reconstruction on the Masters of Cinema release from Eureka), you can still feel the grime and murk at the heart of this US/Mexico border set noir. A rough edged, part-remembered nightmare of corruption and deception.
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Kill Your Darlings 2013
Telling the story of the murder in Riverside Park from Allen Ginsberg’s point of view ahead of the views of Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs is inexcusable. It’s undoubtedly an interesting story but by having to maintain Ginsberg as the main character, director John Krokidas fails to develop the relationships between the characters directly involved in the murder. Similarly, by just focussing on this event in Ginsberg’s life, Kill Your Darlings fails to deliver a satisfying portrait of…
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Boyhood 2014
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is an extraordinary film, both in its conception and its execution. In a world of ballooning budgets and opening weekend projections, a film like Boyhood shouldn’t exist, but thankfully it does and the end product is an endlessly fascinating and rewarding experience.
Boyhood follows Mason Jr (Ellar Coltrane) as he grows up in Texas with his elder sister Samantha(Lorelai Linklater) and his separated parents (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke) over 12 years, from early childhood to the…
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