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No Other Land 2024
There are obviously many, many memorable sequences in this. There are sequences of unimaginable horror and heartbreak, but also sequences of humor and resilience, of a community working together to carve out a living for themselves amidst the terror. There is great love among the village that resonates even in the worst of times.
But even among all those sequences, one stuck out to me. Near the end of the film, two friends sit together contemplating what they are doing…
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The Duke of Burgundy 2014
It’s an all-time classic argument for couples to have. “I just wish you would take out the trash without me having to ask you to.”
Except, instead of taking out the trash, it’s your dom-bottom asking you to lock them in a trunk.
“The Duke of Burgundy” may be about fetish and kink, but decidedly aims away from sexy and instead into sensual. It is a movie that feels — where every texture, from bathroom tile to nylon stockings, from…
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La La Land 2016
All these years later, I finally come around to "La La Land," only to be left with a somewhat middling feeling. Maybe I waited too long and the moment had passed, or the hype had become too strong? I don't know.
Val Lewton once said of the horror films he made for RKO in the 40s that they had to work within the horror narrative, but also had to work when stripped of their horrific elements. When "La La Land"…
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The Institute 2012
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This was such a frustrating watch. By the end of the film, I felt like some of the interviewees who expressed that the narrative of the game they were playing took a nosedive off a cliff.
Somewhere in here, there is an interesting documentary about ARGs, the type of people who are drawn to and participate in them, the types of people that create them, street and performance art, communal interaction, and the threads which connect our daily consumption of…
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