Matthew Eng

Matthew Eng

Favorite films

  • Aquarius
  • Crossing Delancey
  • In Jackson Heights
  • My Night at Maud's

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  • The Quiet Son

  • Black Book

  • Play It as It Lays

  • Anora

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  • Play It as It Lays

    Play It as It Lays

    Can somebody who knows how to use Avid please break into the Universal archives to retrieve the B-roll from this and reassemble it into a Jeanne Dielman-esque edit? I could watch Tuesday Weld forever.

  • Anora

    Anora

    At the end of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019), Mikey Madison’s Manson girl got blowtorched to death. Yet what I most viscerally recall from that sequence is not the sadism but the actress’s decibel-shredding banshee wail. Madison had earlier secured my devotion as Pamela Adlon’s eldest daughter on the series Better Things: in an era of recessive, soft-spoken portrayals of female adolescence, her performance felt distinctive for the clamorous heights of its petulant discourtesy and undertow of easily wounded…

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  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    Aftersun, the feature debut of the Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells, comes as close as any film I can recall to giving grief a cinematic form that does not seek to explicate but instead embody its very instability... Corio and Mescal—the former an exceptionally poised and perceptive newcomer plucked from a field of 800 auditioners, the latter one of the only good things to emerge during the first wave of COVID in Normal People (2020)—function not like two actors with natural…

  • Nine

    Nine

    To paraphrase Max von Sydow in Hannah and Her Sisters: If Fellini came back in 2009 and saw what Harvey Weinstein was doing in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

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