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Inside Job 2010
Starting to think that the destabilizing groundswell of political populism over the past fifteen years or so has its origin primarily in the 2008 financial crash. Amazing how there's basically a transfer-portal between executives of large corporations, elite universities, and federal government positions—and they're all collaborating to further each other's interests. And its especially telling that many of these people work at government agencies in both Republican and Democrat administrations, because—at least in the neolib/neocon era—both parties' policy w/r/t corporations…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Doesn’t really surprise me that a film which (1) was produced by A24, (2) exhibits excessive formal maximalism, and (3) concludes with an extremely of-our-time moral plea has ascended to the upper echelons of Letterboxd favs. I try not to judge art along rigidly ideological lines, only reacting favourably when it conforms to my own beliefs about the nature of reality—i.e. there are many films which I love while disagreeing with the message. And there’s a lot to admire here…
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House of Games 1987
Maybe State and Main was just an anomaly, but here Mamet’s approach to dramaturgy seems fundamentally ill-conceived and downright awful. Crouse’s performance gets a lot of criticism for being “robotic” (which it is), but it’s been a good long while since I’ve witnessed a purportedly serious drama/thriller with an ensemble so all-encompassingly inept. This isn’t the wooden performances in a Bresson picture or the stilted work in a Lanthimos or Wes Anderson film—no, this is like if a cast of…
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