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Nosferatu 2024
YOU ARE LATE. THE MIDNIGHT HOUR IS PAST.
I think Eggers’ Nosferatu is a pretty remarkable achievement. Beyond his renowned obsession with period detail, Eggers’ gift for composition really shines here. Several moments in Nosferatu are easily the most visually striking of the decade. That they eschew the naturalistic lighting that might be expected of a prestige period piece in favor of highly dramatized compositions in the vein of the German Expressionist style only adds to their uniqueness.
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Creepy 2016
Lives up to its title with a deeply unsettling examination of unsolved disappearances and the line where boundaries end and self preservation begins.
Kurosawa is king of the claustrophobic interior space, and here there’s one which gives you shudders long before you can even guess what’s going on inside.
Some might call this a rehash of his 1997 classic Cure. It certainly taps into his career-long obsession with small apocalypses building steam within the Japanese petit-bourgeoisie. The main difference here seems…Translated from by
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Oppenheimer 2023
There’s such a stark difference between the beginning of the movie - where Oppenheimer is reading Eliot, studying Picasso’s cubist period, learning the new physics, in agape wonder at the possibilities of this abstract, post-Einstein 20th century, “hearing the music” as illustrated by cross-cutting with these atomic abstractions & Göransson’s score which seems to rotate around the listener’s mind like an accelerating electron - and the beginning of the third act. Here, his momentous achievement is solidified in history - the…
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Oppenheimer 2023
My worst fear about Oppenheimer was that it would be some kind of brooding hagiography for capital B Brilliant Men, in the vein of Dunkirk or The Dark Knight trilogy. Instead, Nolan has delivered perhaps his most mature, electric, complex and harrowing work yet. In many of his films he uses a byzantine (let’s be honest: sometimes pointlessly confusing) structure to interrogate one central question. Here the structure is through two McCarthy era hearings: one for Oppenheimer himself and one…
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