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Bright Star 2009
simply and beautifully lit; campion and fraser make the beautiful look simple. as i watched Bright Star i kept waiting for something to arrive, but it never did. now i am not sure if that was a failure of expectation on my part and the film is better as it is, or if there is something missing. either way, it was lovely to watch.
in this work more than other period dramas, i found myself wondering what it would be…
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The New World 2005
"And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent,…
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The Stranger 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
queensland floodplains and long nights on murray's buses. goes well on the rewatch, although i do wonder whether it could have done with a slightly better structure (less exposition). edgerton and harris do very good work. australian men and their awkward, stilted conversations; their silences and swearing to conceal nervousness; their flashes of rage and little flutters of confession, anxious to get closer, to not be so lonely anymore.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
one of the most vegetarian films ever made. would make for a great double-billing with Babe.
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Speed Racer 2008
there's a montage right near the end of this film, during the final stretch of the final race, that would wouldn't work in almost any other film but here attains a rare grace. the friend i watched this with said: "eisenstein walked so Speed Racer could run," by which they meant race, and i cannot help but agree. there are perhaps one or two narrative quibbles, but i think they are more reflections on my taste than the film itself; a film which, i suspect, will end up being genuinely timeless. it is a shining, inexhaustibly optimistic synthesis of form and content.
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
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i struggle to think of a bleaker film [update: maybe Chinatown? Casino?]. early on, we are introduced to what appears on the social surface to be, by 1920s standards, a successful multicultural society. foreknowledge of what happens to the osage and even a cursory knowledge of american history in general disabuses us of that notion, but its possibility haunts me as the rest of the film moves on, charting the central conspiracy in a steady, evil drumbeat.
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