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La Chimera 2023
One of my favorite viewing experiences in recent memory. Italia is among the most wonderful characters I've seen on screen in a long time.
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Starting Over 1979
Unexpectedly one of the lightest, funniest most grown-up comedies I've seen in a good while. See it for Candice Bergen's improbably bad singing voice; stay for Burt Reynolds playing a normal person.
With support from Jill Clayburgh, Austin Pendleton, Wallace Shawn, Charles Durning, Mary Kay Place and countless more doing some of their best work.
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Women Talking 2022
Of the greatest films I've seen in recent memory.
Polley's (and DP Luc Montpellier's) relentless and radical use of film language is astonishing. It slides so easily from objective to subjective; from personal to global; it's not rushed and even at 100 minutes sometimes feels impossibly intimate, slowing almost to a full stop. I was reminded of Todd Field's Tar, and that title character's description of the conductor as a god who manipulates time.
Sarah Polley is such a deity,…
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