Like a Swiss watch, but also rather sterile and ineffectual. I most appreciate its nods to the Harry Palmer pictures (especially The Ipcress File), with Fassbender’s specs, his love of and skill for cooking, and Blanchett’s tendency to “make the first move,” as it were, by removing his glasses — not to mention some of its angles and compositions (high or low canted especially). Soderbergh is an admitted fan of Ipcress and Sidney J. Furie’s work on it, even having…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
This is the very definition of a movie that yearns for you to admire it more than it seeks to cast to spell over you. Slate Culture Gabfest put it best:
“It's so mopey, it's so dreary, it's so slow. It's in a weird way, almost bizarrely underwritten, which it then excuses itself for being by making both characters so suppressed and inchoate and so utterly without social context, other than the TV show, which I suppose is on purpose.…
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Born to Win 1971
I've been obsessed with Ivan Passer's BORN TO WIN (1971) since I was a teenager. It's the grimiest, grittiest, filthiest, smoggiest, shaggiest, dirtiest-low-down NYC ever committed to celluloid. I place it even above Taxi Driver in that department. However, while Taxi Driver may be the definitive portrait of Mayor Abe Beame's New York, Born to Win is the quintessential New York of Mayor Lindsay.
When I lived for a month with Karen Black and her husband (and now good friend)…
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