An absolutely brutal depiction of sweaty male romantic desperation/obsession/entitlement. Annie Hall by way of The Heartbreak Kid, though a lot more unpleasant and less funny than either of those connections might indicate. Also deeply sad--John Heard's character's romantic egotism kind of dominates, but whenever that drops away and we get glimpses of his mother's mental illness or Mary Beth Hurt's character's utter panic at bourgeois life, there's some real staring-into-the-abyss pain present in the film, and the fact that Heard…
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Lancelot of the Lake 1974
An extremely post-1968 movie about the failure of a movement and the collapse of an empire. Opens with a surprisingly gory battle that feels like it may have been the inspiration for the black knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With all of the armor and horses, this is the most expensive-looking Bresson movie I've seen, but maybe some of the bizarre stylistic choices (like filming 75% of a jousting tournament in an extreme close-up of a…
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This Place Rules 2022
Can't believe I wasted my last movie-watching opportunity of 2022 on this garbage. I haven't watched a ton of Andrew Callaghan's online work, but I've seen enough to know that he has a preternatural, almost Nathan-Fielder-esque ability for using his flat affect to draw incredible comments from the people he interviews, and that's on display here. There are a dozen fascinating documentaries to be made from the raw material captured here (the influencer street fight at the beginning, the heartbreaking…
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American Factory 2019
American Factory has a lot of really good raw material about the fresh evils of multi-national corporations and the ways in which labor gets exploited by global capitalism. Its central fight for unionization at the Fuyao factory in Dayton, Ohio, is rousing and vital. All of that is why I've given American Factory anything close to a positive rating. But the rest... woof. The fact that this movie frames the whole conflict of the situation as some sort of American…
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