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  Blow Out 1981

  Watched 21 Feb 2025

  Much like Coppola's 'The Conversation' but with the added edge of De Palma's exploitation roots and a feeling of conspiratorial thinking more typical to a Roger Stone picture. Draws deeply from cultural well of post-Watergate political paranoia – Lithgow’s character Burke seems heavily influenced by Gordon Liddy as a wild card political operator – and in fact probably captures that atmosphere better than the more direct attempts like ‘All the President’s Men’ or Spielberg’s ‘The Post’. Possibly De Palma’s best with the exception of ‘Carrie’.

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  Challengers 2024

  Watched 30 Apr 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Lanton Mills 1969

  Added 6

  I have not seen 'Lanton Mills' however I have researched it online and the following for anyone wondering what the story is with this short is everything I found out about 'Lanton Mills' and why it is so hard to find.

  This was Malick's thesis film for the AFI. Later (presumably when he became a big name in film) he donated a VHS copy to the AFI but he stipulated that only AFI scholars can watch the film and that…

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  Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You! 2012

  Watched 20 Oct 2021 1

  There’s an economic principal, Moore’s Law which basically observes the speed and capability of technology will increase every 2 years but the amount one will pay for it will decrease. Since the advent of digital photography one could read into this principal to extrapolate a mass democratization of filmmaking was inevitable, that microbudget amateur filmmaking was to become a bigger part of the cinematic landscape. Yet it never materialized, not in the big way it was expected at least.

  The…

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