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The Backstreet 2024
Great little doc, giving a bittersweet insight into a cultural oasis that I'm sad to know has now disappeared.
It seems the fate of so many places like The Backstreet is to be snuffed out by rentier fuckheads. In this case, it's a small mercy that the London Museum was able to salvage some momentos, but you have to mourn the loss of these spaces.
Besides some particularly well-shot steamy sections, there's nothing especially notable about the filmmaking, but this was an important story to be told.
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Stalker 1979
Watching this film is the closest thing I have to going to church. It's a service that drags on, but nonetheless conveys great beauty, subtlety and emotion. I go to this church every couple years and it fulfills me until the next time – to go more often would, I think, diminish its effects.
Even in its slowest, quietest moments, Stalker serves up incredible scenes and imagery. This time, the image of the Stalker lying in the earth as he's…
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Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend 2024
Look, man. I don't wanna knock this too much – but it is really, really hard for YouTubers to make a film that doesn't feel like it was made by YouTubers, even if they're professionals invested in an independent distributor/production company.
This should be a tight little chamber play, but the script feels heavy-handed and rudderless. I don't know why it starts and ends where it does, and I don't know if there was much of a journey.
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Conclave 2024
Ohhh. So THAT'S why all my [redacted] friends were raving about this.
I feel like I've been on a run of watching 'meh' films lately and I think this one has broken the curse. I'd forgotten how good a tight, character-driven mystery thriller could be. It's so cool that we'll seemingly never run out of stories in which a group of characterful people are locked in a room together and have to figure out a problem.
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