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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II 2013
It's like poetry. Terrible poetry that is.
Amazing that Lars was able to salvage this film's drab digressional/confessional formula in House that Jack built. It's still clunky and somewhat boring, but defiantly works to that films advantage. So while I regret the choice of watching these, it's at least an interesting piece of DNA.
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Conclave 2024
I would have skipped if I’d realized it was done by the same hack who made All Quiet on the Western Front. Both films indulge in the same overtly showy prestige cinema style—not inherently bad, but part of a pattern where spectacle and self-importance mask a gradual descent into incoherence. Conclave is mercifully shorter then it's predecessor but has got a complete train-wreck of an ending, so let’s say they go blow for blow!
The liberal orthodoxy of diversity and…
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The Third Part of the Night 1971
Zulawski is quickly becoming one of my favourite directors.
Remarkable considering it's his first attempt at making a film, but he just seems to know exactly what he wants right away. The precise and kinetic cinematography, the bizarre poetic dialogue, the exaggerated physical performances and that massive otherworldly sense of surrealist dread. It's all here.
The first 20 or so minutes are an absolute roller coaster of emotion. After that it slows down noticeably. It's interesting how many of these themes and ideas would later be redeployed in Possession, a movie which I desperately need to re-watch.
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Hamilton 2020
I'm not going to spend any time on the questionable casting of people of color as the founding fathers, because it's been done to death, but it does feel weird.
I really enjoyed the first couple songs and their reprisals, as well as the congress rap battles, but as the thing went on there was more and more uninspired filler. It also seems like Lin Manuel Miranda stopped listening to music in 2004, as a lot of the instrumentation sounds…
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