Watched this and thought "huh, for having this many interesting details, too bad this real life account didn't have any more exciting escalation or detonation, that would have made for a good movie." Then I found out it's not even based on a true story. Have more fun with big juicy set-ups, people!
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Capricorn One 1977
A real weird-o of a movie, like they decided to make the screwball comedy of the 70s paranoia thriller. That comedy is super inconsistent, but the protagonist is Elliot Gould doing very Elliot Gould things, so it's a definite factor.
But I think the most interesting thing about the movie has to be the dialogue, which is so enormously overwritten it's hard not to enjoy it. The giant igniting incident goes unexplained for like five minutes while Hal Holbrook gives…
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Citizenfour 2014
What's great about Citizenfour is that it forgoes telling a story, and instead is completely comfortable with and devoted to telling an experience - a very strange and surreally calm experience - of doing something that led a young man to become the primary ire and target of the CIA. All the while Snowden just sits on a hotel bed and explains computers.
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Phantom Thread 2017
Phantom Thread's not necessarily Paul Thomas Anderson's best film, but it is the one that convinces me that he is, as a filmmaker, invincible.
He's wandered farther away from his wheelhouse than in any previous film with Phantom Thread, a period romance. There's plenty of thin PTA humor to be found in the dialogue (it's perplexingly full zingers I can't wait to incorporate into my vocabulary), but otherwise this is feels like new territory for him. Perhaps unsurprisingly, PTA doesn't…
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