Young, aspiring, mid-century antique.
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Mr. Freedom 1968
William Klein’s blunt perspective of toxic masculinity and overt patrioticism during the Vietnam war’s Americanization campaign that while shocking in its honesty upon release, fits right in with modern republican talking points. the satire is sadly reality now.
it is a parody of the corporate ideology contained within the endless Marvel movies we’ve been plagued with the last 15 years before that genre would ever exist.
this would act as an excellent double feature with Robert Downey’s Putney Swope.
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Quiz Show 1994
oh man do those fake eyebrows not look good on Rob Morrow.
Robert Redford does a scathing critique on corporate control on mass entertainment that seems very timely given our current political climate. you can see him channeling Elia Kazan’s A Face In The Crowd.
how much can you sell with a pretty face? in th end you go after television, but television will come for you. Scorsese’s line of “the public has short term memory, corporations never forget…” just so on the nose as it was in the 90s to represent the 50s as it is for today.
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Uncle Buck 1989
John Candy should have had more lead roles.
The scene where he intimidates the rapist is burned into my memory when the movie used to constantly rerun on HBO back in the day.
The soundtrack is the most realized John Hughes work in my opinion, more so than Pretty In Pink.
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The Substance 2024
Hands down the movie of the year. I can’t wait to see what else MUBI has in store.
All I could think of was Neil Young’s line “it’s better to burn out than to fade away.” The film seems to be heavily influenced by Jane Fonda’s fate as a fitness workout guru in the 1980s. Her rise to fame as a child actor peaked in 1968 as the sex goddess Barbarella, only to get blacklisted due to her opposition to…
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