I’ll gush over Italian neorealism, Rohmer, any French 1960s. But really I want to watch spy shows.
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Here 2023
I had a hard time connecting to the slow pace of this film, but by the end found it to be a lovely meditation on connection - with the slyest ending I’ve seen this year. Did Stefan not tell her his name, or did she forget it? He really did his best to barely be there. A very displaced person — his nightly wandering, and indecision whether he belongs back home in Romania or in Brussels. And the seeds in…
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Janet Planet 2023
I loved this movie! The gentle pace and the understated way it handles the sorta brutal, suffocating relationship between the mother and daughter. And the western Mass., Bread and Puppet Theater, barefoot older-guys-with-ponytails vibe is pitch-perfect. The film feels completely lived-in. You know what it’s like to be a kid who spends way too much time with a parent who is dating (in the 90s before the apps). I like how the story felt very unstructured at the beginning, and…
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The Last Detail 1973
Has a terrific Robert Towne script, written for Jack Nicholson and peppered with so many “fucks” that Columbia balked. Towne insisted they leave them all in: “I said … this is the way people talk when they’re powerless to act; they bitch.” Nicholson gives a great performance. Ashby’s sympathetic eye is beautifully attuned to every slight that befalls Randy Quaid’s simpleton convict as well as to the moments of pure comedy between the three men.
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