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Miami Vice 2006
What elevates Miami Vice to a masterpiece is the tension between its realism and its expressionism. I know I'm not the first to say it but the way Mann forces the two contradictions into the same image is breathtaking.
The way digital images can be both honest and deceptive. The inescapable tension of being an individual within a global network. Mann's vision is always about living in contradictions, about accepting dissonance. This is perhaps his purest distillation.
Gong Li's face…
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
One of those films thats seared into my brain. An iconographic treatise on the power and terror of images. A film that literalizes the physical and psychical imprint of spectacular imagery: Images as the closest we can come to translation. The "implanted visions" and obsessions that can lead to the *real* image you've been waiting for. The way images can destroy or mend relationships and families.
And then at the end of it all, the past literally returns but now…
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Everyone Says I Love You 1996
Incredible that woody allen couldn't make me hate this film
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Saint Jack 1979
Ben Gazzara has more charisma in one 'hey' than most actors have in their entire careers
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TÁR 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A film that's measured and tense and in many ways truly beautiful, but in the end I couldn't help but feel there was something altogether robotic about it.
A me-too story that was riveting in the moment but I doubt will have tremendous staying power. An almost-masterpiece that needed to choose a direction: Barry Lyndon or Phantom Thread. Needed a little less or a little more. More clinical or more haunted.
For all that harping, there are truly sublime moments,…
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