I love a movie whose last few minutes make you rethink the whole story - and this does it so efficiently, so effectively. It's also a very hot movie - as in heat, sweat, dry air. I don't know what it is about the filming and editing that captures it but it made me consider going out to a desert, as I looked out the window and saw pouring rain.
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013
Going into this without any pre-knowledge (only watched and read the first one), I was surprised what a massive leap in quality this is over the first. Turns out there's more to life than shakey cam! That aspect ratio change!
Imagine my shock when my boy PSH rolls in to give a smarmy bastard masterclass! What a lovely little treat of popcorn filmmaking this is.
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Wings of Desire 1987
In preparation for watching "Perfect Days", I've re-watched my favorite of Wim Wender's films (sorry Paris, Texas! You're second place, and I love you too!)
It's a movie that makes being alive feel like a beautiful thing to be cherished without getting overly sentimental. There's pain and loss, and that pain and loss is part of the whole process. I think where a lot of movies in the "arthouse cannon" lean into pessimism, something with a shred of optimism stands…
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The Wizard of Oz 1939
I do love a lot of this movie. Greta Gerwig talks about the movie being "authentically artificial" - I think I grasp what she means. It's a feeling I get from here, from Truman Show, from Synecdoche, New York. In showing the walls of the artifice, you find the deeper emotional truth - through here, that feeling is hit unintentionally.
The early Kansas portions last longer than I remember them lasting as a kid - in hindsight it's quite brave…
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