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Last Year at Marienbad 1961
I waited a very long time to watch Last Year at Marienbad because I knew it had a reputation as an inscrutable, surrealist masterpiece and god damn did it deliver. A man pursues a beautiful woman through the halls of an isolated, baroque hotel, convinced that they had an affair the previous year in Marienbad - or is he mistaken? Did it happen at all? Has it not happened yet?
This film treats identity, memory, and dreams like playthings to…
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The Third Part of the Night 1971
“You see, I’ve never known whether I’m important or unimportant, whether I’ll die for somebody’s sake or they’ll die for mine. People move on orbits that are so distant from each other. They encounter each other so rarely and when they do, they often aren’t those who should’ve been brought together. It sometimes happens in the midst of a war, among lice, blood, and muck.”
The Third Part of the Night is a phantasmagorical revelation slicked with blood. Michal sees…
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Nowhere 1997
Everyone I follow on this app seems to be binging Gregg Araki flicks recently so I felt like I was missing out on something big - turns out I was totally right.
Nowhere (and I’m hoping, Araki’s other work) is the edgiest, queerest, horniest, angstiest movie I’ve ever seen. It’s aggressively stylized, over-the-top teenage nihilism and hedonism soaked in neon and strapped up in latex.
We follow Dark (“Name’s Dark, like absence of light”), his girlfriend Mel, and their miscreant…
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The Room Next Door 2024
The Room Next Door is the great Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film, Golden Lion winner, and… I wish I liked it more.
Two old friends reunite under after years under unfortunate circumstances, and their reconnection adds a profound final chapter to their relationship.
The good: Almodóvar brings Jacques Demy’s beautifully rich sensibility for colors into the modern era - so many of his scenes look like they were colored with Pantone swatches from a Mondrian painting. Eduard Grau’s cinematography knows…
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
I mean, how do I even write a review for this masterpiece? I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see 2001: A Space Odyssey on its native 70mm format at the Coolidge Corner Theater, which managed to procure the archival reels on loan from Warner Brothers as part of its “Cinema in 70mm” feature this month.
Seeing this for a second time (on the big screen, in a sold out 440-person theater) gave me the opportunity to appreciate even further the…
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover somehow manages to perfectly package soul-rotting ugliness and brutality into a beautiful, gilded veneer. Gratuitous excesses of food and violence caged in meticulous cinematic formalism. No wonder Ari Aster is obsessed with this film! Perfect double feature with a nicecore movie like Paddington.
Albert Spica is perhaps the most narcissistic and repulsive individual put to film - he isn’t some clichéd agent of thoughtless cruelty, rather a perpetrator of calculated malice.…
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