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Big Take 2024
Not a bad little joint, I've gotta say. Has an old-school cool feel to it which I dig, and chooses its length pretty perfectly. The start is ripped straight from Steve Buscemi's escape in Reservoir Dogs, and the rest feels like a broadened imagining of that scene. Neat.
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Lost Highway 1997
And your name. What the fuck is your name?!
Had to come back to this. I watched it a few weeks ago but couldn't quite get it off my mind. It's enamouring. There feels a million and one different ways you could go about approaching Lost Highway, but to me it seems concerned with projections of masculinity, and not ones of the healthy sort. The meanest variety of man bubbles to the surface, the violent, the obsessive, the disloyal, the…
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WHAT DID JACK DO? 2017
David Lynch is a serious man, who takes his craft seriously.
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Once Upon a Time in the West 1968
So you found out you're not a businessman after all.
Just a man.
An ancient race.
The opening scene. A windmill creaks and groans. Rotten floorboards choke out hollow thuds under the weight of rotten men. The Old West is rendered a dying world, and white-hat-vs.-black-hat morality is dying with it. The first hints of modernity are marching even into the film's score, Charles Bronson's harmonica crying out over the stinging electric guitar.Dare I call it the greatest Spaghetti Western ever?
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