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Nosferatu 2024
Kind of comically obnoxious and incompetently directed. Eggers has nothing of substance to add to Murnau's film (the "modern" role for Ellen Hutter is, from every angle, extremely poorly conceived), let alone the endlessly adapted source material or the plethora of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature that preceded and informed it—and films you'd hope, for obvious reasons, he'd be familiar with, like Portabella's Cuadecuc, vampir, clearly aren't on his mind—so it's just completely bizarre this shit was a passion project he apparently…
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Land of the Lustrous 2017
This obviously isn’t as rigorously composed as the art of the source material, but, especially in light of how formally uninspired/genericized adaptations of manga tend to be, it's a compelling project. Haruko Ichikawa’s ideas, shaped by her reaction to studying the Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra and Shinran in her youth, are multifaceted in ways most of her readers don't know how to seriously engage with, and despite my issues with some of the CG visual elements used here, when the 3D's…
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