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Power 2024
Another compelling though less vigorous work by Yance Ford. Overall it was visually captivating and thought-provoking, but it felt lacking in breadth and depth.
The weaving together of archival footage, personal narration, and scholarly interviews confirmed a lot of my pre-existing knowledge and opinions about policing but occasionally offered historical context that was new to me. The film’s most salient prevailing theme to me was how the institution of policing is a maintainer of social order and deterrent of social…
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The Tuba Thieves 2023
A thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation on what it means to experience the world (and movies) across the hearing spectrum. It was powerful to witness this hybrid of scripted and non-fiction storytelling from the vantage point of d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing people - and with a particular centering of folks of color and femmes. The captioning, sound design, and mix of recreated and found audio and visual archival added to the poetic and sensory tapestry of the film in delightful,…
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Hundreds of Beavers 2022
A whimsical-turned-deranged genre slapstick of frontier life that kinda needs to be seen to be believed.
A little more violent of a watch than I expected or wanted, but overall entertaining with a clever and delightful mix of production values.
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Drive My Car 2021
This was my first movie viewing of 2022 and it was a solid choice. I have not read the Murakami story so I cannot compare it as an adaptation (nor do I think it’s necessary to). For a film that spends much of its narrative inside a car, the combined power of its subdued performances and lingering, expansive cinematography elevates it into something more profound than one might expect from the trailer or synopsis alone. It’s a long and dialogue-heavy…
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