I thought I would like this way more than I did. That said, I still thoroughly dug a lot of it. They shot the absolute shit out of this and Friedkin mounts a chase scene better than pretty much anyone. Also, there is a scene very early on where a hot, young Willem Dafoe meticulously forges money to an exquisite original score by Wang Chung. That pretty much defines this film at its best. That and the EIGHTIES. In all…
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The Room 2003
Saw this at a cinema screening with the spoon throwing and all that. Wanted to jam my spoons into my ear holes and vigorously stab out my eardrums so I didn’t have to listen to the moron behind me turn the screening into their own personal stand-up routine that consisted of repeatedly screaming inane shit like “Hawk Tuah” and a veritable torrent of utter mouth garbage that ranged from Family Guy impressions to what I’d hoped was a legitimate death…
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Anora 2024
This felt like plugging myself into a power outlet and juicing my eyeballs with straight cinema. Baker has this incredible ability to soak a character/actor/person into the frame to the point where it disappears and I just sit there and exist and see these people. He’ll just leave the shot lingering on a character that has no lines in a scene while we listen with them. And not even just with the protagonist. Baker observes all. It is such a…
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The Holy Mountain 1973
I saw this on a double feature with El Topo and, boy, did that Holy Mountain ending hit hard after 4 hours of the most insane shit I think I’ve ever seen. I found it so incredibly cathartic and wanted to turn to the person next to me, shake their hand and say “Glad to be here”. Nobody was sitting next to me and I’m an introvert anyway but it was a lovely feeling to have nonetheless. One of the…
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