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Dreams 1990
One of those beautiful pieces of art that kinda makes you hate yourself for being a little dead to it, and this website too for the way we all list, log, compare, quantify a medium which can bring such bright little slices of dream. Features wonderful use of color, especially the greenest greens I've ever seen, and I loved the environmental didacticism. If some anthologies are albums, this is one of Apple Music's curated 'zen' playlists. Just cool minimalist filmmaking
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
Feathers disappear
While the bird treads still water
And the artist thinks
Of a title to give:
The Boy and the Heron, or
How do you Live?Nothing less than an odyssey through the acts of imagining, creating, and dying. A film about everything. Shows you the most incredible shapes and colors for a moment- just long enough to swoon- before moving on to the next composition. Ghibli pacing. A score that might change your life. Architecture and the people…
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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 1966
not a touch on Lang’s masterpiece, but enjoyable enough 60s quasi-biblical epic with its colorful costumes, castles, and landscapes. i love medieval movies where everything looks just a little tacky. that’s how i imagine those times. the main actor - apparently a shotputter by trade - definitely thinks he’s in the silent film but everyone else is ok
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Shrek 2 2004
i hope shrek’s meme legacy hasn’t overtaken the status of this as a genuine masterpiece. hilarious all the way through, uses pop culture references correctly in that the movie is just as funny exciting romantic epic etc if you don’t recognize them, and even (especially?) the quieter moments are made magical by shrek just being this bigheaded bigassed greenassed OGRE. voice acting out the wazoo, donkey especially. soundtrack “slaps”, not just as a series of gags for the parents as…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Too often hollow spectacle, which is especially disappointing after part one managed to balance its documentarian worldbuilding with character and emotion so well. Here almost everyone is less interesting, less human. Porcelain faces subsumed to that greyish-orange haze, in which all things furious, scheming, psychedelic, sexual, whimsical, frightening, are but dried husks. ^ I say almost because Butler's Feyd-Rautha does provide much needed jolts of ~something~. His sequence beneath Giedi Prime's black sun is a fascinating tease of how this…
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Jaws 1975
> why can’t movies look like this anymore?
> why don’t actors like this exist anymore?
> why can’t characters be this interesting and ugly anymore?
> … why is so much of this film’s legacy in its horror elements and shark song? It’s so much more an adventure than a spooky story. Of course there’s fear and tragedy, and I loved the tension of capitalist response to darkness intruding in the all-American town, but the feeling I get while watching is excitement, not…
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