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Marnie 1964
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Sean Connery in Marnie is honestly one of the most disturbing cinematic characters I've come across. I think part of this is that the movie gives us his unpredictable wife as a more straightforwardly "insane" character, allowing the wealthy heir to half-convincingly sneak himself into the role of a reasonable, compassionate husband - the supposed straightman in the relationship. But the film has no delusions about his true nature. Apparently Hitchcock sacked a screenwriter for insisting that the rape scene…
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Where Is the Friend's House? 1987
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Abbas Kiarostami's Where Is The Friend's House? is a masterful tragedy of the mundane. Babek Ahmed Poor delivers one of the greatest child performances I've seen as Ahmed, a boy who accidentally took home his classmate's notebook and spends the day attempting to get it back to him. The stakes are perfectly established in the first scene. If the classmate doesn't have his homework done in his notebook by tomorrow's class, the teacher will expel him. What follows is a…
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A Real Pain 2024
The immigrant experience is being the only one in the cinema to laugh at a language-specific joke.
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Challengers 2024
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Feels very much like a "screenwriter's movie" in the sense that, with the exception of the final tennis match, the whole story is very much told rather than shown. Why does this character hate that character? Here's a flashback to explain exactly how one wronged the other. I won't say that isn't a narrative structure I often enjoy, but I felt it fall apart towards the end. Tashi asking Patrick to throw the match felt like a bit of a…
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Psycho 1960
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There haven't been many positives to this pandemic thus far, but it has been great to see drive-ins make an unexpected comeback. And, God damn, was it awesome to see Hitchcock's classic in a drive-in cinema in 2020. I remember reading Scorsese's op-ed about Marvel films and being really jealous because of how he described his experience of seeing Psycho in a cinema all the way back in 1960. Last night, I finally got to have a similar experience and…
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The Batman 2022
This has gotta be Greig Fraser's best work yet. The whole thing looks so goddamn cool and stylish, which is fucking rare for a blockbuster these days. And the Arkham vibes are strong as hell. For once, "this movie looks like a video game cutscene" isn't an insult. Speaking of pros outdoing themselves, we've known for a year and a half now that Michael Giacchino's score would go hard and it really didn't disappoint. I expect to find myself listening to this thing a lot in the weeks to come.
Robert Pattison and Zoë Kravitz hot.
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