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Dottie Gets Spanked 1993
The so-cropped-close-it’s-barely-legible loop cut of the spanking rehearsal to spanking live show to spanking broadcast to spanking drawing is so perfect it hurts.
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Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud 1985
Kinda wild for a movie to wear the influence of The Velvet Underground’s The Murder Mystery on its sleeve that prominently.
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Autour de Jeanne Dielman 1975
This isn't a revelatory making-of documentary. It doesn't give you context, explicate the cultural significance of the movie, or discuss certain scenes' importance or effect. Aside from a brief on-set interview in which Seyrig discusses feminism and a final, also brief section where we actually watch a take of a scene, it consists entirely of unadorned on-set video footage of Akerman and Seyrig blocking and rehearsing scenes, discussing actions and timing, and Seyrig occasionally insisting that Akerman be more precise…
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Zigeunerweisen 1980
Suzuki creates a structure so dense it's almost not one, characters, events, emotions, sounds bleeding across the whole thing. No individual moment is protected from the others by anything tougher than an over-ripe peach skin.
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