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Favorite films

  • The Tree of Life
  • Night Music
  • The Emblazoned Apparitions
  • Blissfully Yours

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  • Police Story 2

    ★★★

  • Ready or Not

    ★★★

  • The Box Man

    ★★½

  • The Room Next Door

    ★½

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  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ★★★½

    A spun cinematic ode, of spotlit transience and material immortality; an industry overtaken by its own self-aggrandizing success, growing beyond its maker though materializing them in time - a promising study, explored enthusiastically; its kinetic balancing act messy but fun when in full swing - of a choreographed chaos, overenshrined in darkness but reaching for a broader bliss; its flowing movements appreciated, abrasive editing less so..

    Strong performances and sincerity carry as the film attempts to hamper its own objectives,…

  • Avatar: The Way of Water

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    ★★

    A torrential tech demo of weightless action; ecologically cushioned, its still stilted movements brushed aside by narrative padding - a smart decision, though one taken for more superficial ambitions; a corporately cinematic model of TV-lined franchising efforts, soullessly roping-off decades for releases - to uninpactful long-term ends, culturally if not certainly emotionally; the whole intrinsically averse to creative expression, designed instead for broad appeals.

    Technically, the work that's been done here is nothing to scoff at - the melding of…

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  • Five-Year Diary

    Five-Year Diary

    ★★★★★

    Seems like a disservice to call this a diary, Robertson capturing her consciousness, living through the film for its 16-year duration - her mountains of footage cut down to 85 reels and ~37 hours.

    Only a handful are available, scattered about the years, providing a good range to see both the psychological and stylistic evolution - her every thought, fear, and observation recorded and wound in objects, landscapes, and people - her intentions and approach to the film evolving in…

  • Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)

    ★★★★★

    Split into three parts, Consolations comprises the second region of Elder's completed masterwork, The Book of All the Dead, a collection of his entire filmography to 1994.

    A thematic reflection and structural evolution, Consolations builds on his elaborate style, double the length of Lamentations (1985) and further steeped in spiritual theories.

    Scriptural texts and philosophical writings overlaid; images of bodies and nature entwined, hypnotically introduced - overlapping without overwhelming, the film dense with intent, muddled in complexion.

    Looking for the…