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Southern Chronicles 2024
I watched this absolutely hammered, in a room with a bunch of Lithuanians, projected with a classroom-grade projector onto a wrinkly bedsheet. It's not exactly the pure cinematic experience, but you couldn't have come up with something more appropriate to the tone and content of the film.
I don't know what to say other than it's great. An engrossing, compelling, slightly shaggy portrayal of finding one's way as a teenager in '90s Lithuania, all the more credible for its occasional…
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Nosferatu 2024
It's literally fun! This is like Ocean's Eleven to me. It's a couch movie. I feel like I really started to understand Robert Eggers when I found out his mentor is Chris Columbus - it's a superficially very different angle on that same basic idea that movies are for having a good time.
Like many films with period dialogue, goes down way smoother on a second viewing, since you don't have to work to follow the plot and parse the characters' grammar at the same time. Subtitles would also work.
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Conclave 2024
Praise be to God, it's a genuine middlebrow movie. I thought they were legally not allowed to make these anymore. It's accessible popular entertainment, it features smart people in a way that makes you feel smart (even if it doesn't hold up to too much scrutiny), and it looks like it cost an absolutely medium amount of money to film. You can literally make ten of these for a single Red One.
Thematically it's a little on-the-nose, which is partly…
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Citizen Kane 1941
Like all art that is "the best of all time," Citizen Kane's canonical status is due to a discourse socially constructed around the movie and has surprisingly little (though not nothing) to do with intrinsic qualities of the art itself. The mythology of Citizen Kane, which was constructed at a particular time by particular people for particular reasons, generates a set of expectations which basically cannot be met unless one adopts the mindset of the critics who constructed it. To…
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