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The Last Temptation of Christ 1988
quite frankly the only depiction of christ in a hollywood movie that seeks to try and reckon with the potential religious and existential angst of his character. it was worth revisiting if only for the quiet audacity of its final act, or rather last temptation
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Balikbayan 2004
maybe one day i’ll get into my spiel about how much of contemporary diaspora cinema and its transnational themes can be elucidated once they begin to take a slight step away from conventional reality and embrace the idiosyncratic or surreal or more expressionist concepts that comes with living within tensions of identities/nations. i often tell folks that now we have our “traditional” millennial canadian diaspora film in something like riceboy sleeps- how can we stretch our stories to capture the…
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Inay 2024
inay is special because this is the first score i co-composed alongside the filmmaker/subject of this project (jeremiah reyes)
thea and jeremiah are longtime pals and it was a pleasure to witness them go from structuring the project on index cards to getting married to the rough cut of the film to the one you see on the big screen.
the film is unafraid to be raw, painful, and cathartic. i’ve been referring this film to folks as both docu-memoir…
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Mickey 17 2025
verhoeven meets vonnegut.
mickey 17 is the type of big budget eccentric, genre-agnostic flick the writer/director of a best picture movie could make with reckless joy. wasn’t as instantly enamoured by it as other bong hits but still had a great time by its final actTranslated from by
