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Licorice Pizza 2021
70mm
Yet again, Paul Thomas Anderson proves why he's the greatest director working today.
From the opening frames of LICORICE PIZZA to the end, I had a smile of my face, thinking of why I love movies. The film is pure joy from beginning to end. PTA lets go of narrative structure to create something that feels more like a free-wheeling breeze. The film jumps from beat to beat, scene to scene. Characters, most clearly Jon Peters, enter the film…
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Less Than Zero 1987
Ed Lachman masterclass. strips away almost all of the maturity of Ellis' text for the most 1980s anti-drug movie of all time.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
35mm
one of the great screenplays. the only movie to understand the beauty and romance of the Long Island Rail Road
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
very much just working out preliminary notes here, since like any masterwork this will require a second viewing to wrap my head around its denseness, but i think Martin Scorsese may have made the Great American Film. it doesn’t feel like anything else he’s ever made, it’s slow in a very methodical way, making you sit through a brutal middle section of watching these Osage get killed with no hope, so the film can ramp up its speed once the…
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Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire 2023
70mm
i don’t think any filmmaker has ever been hurt by a netflix partnership more than Zack Snyder. while i hesitate to call him a great director due to his pre-dc films either being just mildly good or outright bad, with his four dc films he started to come into his own as a filmmaker. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Zack Snyder’s Justice League in particular were his first two major works. however, since he started making films for netflix…
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