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Synecdoche, New York 2008
This film is different. Pretty early on you are taken away from the familiarity of the typical format and expectations of a normal film. From there, I found there to be in a strange place of “this film is God awful” to “This is one of the greatest films I’v ever seen”.
It encapsulates so much of the minute thoughts that are fleeting through my head every day. “We’re here for a fraction of a millisecond and the rest of…
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Conclave 2024
I feel blessed (pun intended) to have saved perhaps the best best picture film for last.
Story, acting, cinematography, and score all coalesce to create what should be the dark horse of this Oscars season. It’s a film in that is able to say something profound, by finding the balance of spoon-feeding a story (Emilia Perez) and leaving things so vague that the audience has to dig so deep that the intent and vision of the director is lost or…
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Nickel Boys 2024
A difficult subject matter told using a difficult shooting technique to pull off without feeling forced. Hats off to the filmmakers for taking a chance.
Using POV grounds the viewer to the characters, making us feel all the more a part of the characters fate. The use of space race archival footage drive home the point of how advanced we were becoming as a species and a nation, but also a reminder of how glacial social change can be. Overall…
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