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Crimes of the Future 2022
I‘m finally getting to this though DC is in my list of favorite directors. I’m a bit mixed on this. It‘s like the new Bob Mould album. It’s terrific and it’s great to have new stuff to listen to. But it feels a bit like more and not enough like different. I feel like both DC (and Mould) and I are caught between expectations and memory. That means there is much of what I have loved, but it actually isn’t…
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2010
I've got a vicisous cold and my wife is away. I took some cold medicine that I wanted to just shut my lights out. So I decided to put on this movie. I saw it two maybe three times--the first time in the theater. I do miss broad dumb comedies that are smart about being silly. Also, I am exactly the right age demographic for this.
Ummm...wow, there's some dodgy, dodgy stuff in this. It still hits all the funny…
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Fargo 1996
What’s left to say about this brilliant film? The very first time I saw it, I felt let down a little after the dizzying stylistic innovations of the previous Coen brothers films. But after my second viewing I could see them grounding themselves and finding ways to work with idiom grounded in region rather than referring back to cinema.
I have a new theory that in the scenes in which Macy and MacDormand are talking, the actors aren’t actually together…
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Last Night in Soho 2021
If Jacques Demy made a giallo…
I loved this. It’s visually brilliant…practical effects and often “in camera.”
It subverts the usual (and classist) premise of city/ suburbanites go into the country and get attacked. Here it is the reverse. Also we get to see the main protagonist well before stuff goes wrong; in fact we see her really happy up in Cornwall. Wright knows we really have to see “The before” to really get “the after.” Anyway it bucks the current template of horror films that begin at the point of crisis.
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