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The Brutalist 2024
Holy Smokes. I will never have words to describe this cinema experience properly. For now, I feel so lucky to have seen this film at a sold out IFI preview in Dublin on 70mm. The audience engagement with the sonic, electric, tectonic energy of this film was incredible. I had also just completed day three of a camera assistant course where we were practicing focus pulling. The focus pulling in this film was INSANE so I couldn't stop noticing and being blown away by it.
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God's Creatures 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Strong imagery and use of repetition. Beautifully shot on Kodak film. Lit bravely dark in places. The colour of the night time shots were beautiful, the red lights outside the pub, the yellow of a florescent tube in the homestead were mesmerising. The daytime shots like the cold blue tinge of the fish factory, were excellent in conveying a seaside town in retrograde from foreign fishing liscences and the departure of young people. That subtle half tracking shot on Sarah's…
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Long Day's Journey into Night 2018
I've never seen a film which so accurately displays what it feels like to be dreaming and not quite know if you are. I found throughout I couldn't remember what had happened in the previous scene. I was so concentrated on trying to link the symbolism in each location that only echos from before would bob to the surface at any one time . The honeycomb, theapples, the stuff of structure. Linked memory narrative bones buried deep in the catacombs…
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