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Le Trou 1960
Much like Rififi a few years before this, Le Trou feels like the essential entry in a genre (this time prison escape) by being almost painfully deliberate. It is exhausting watching them crash cement for minutes at a time, or wander aimlessly through catacombs, but that is what also makes it frightening and intense.
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May December 2023
Todd Haynes does "To Die For" as only he could, by reminding us that beyond all of the tabloid fodder and explosive details, people then have to spend decades living with the consequences of that attention and the decisions they made. Charlie Melton's Joe (and even Gracie to an extent) are the latest in a long line of Haynes' heroes who have struggled to emerge out of decades under the confined world that has been created around them. I couldn't…
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Harakiri 1962
It amazes me that this came out in 1962, the same year as John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, because they are woven from the same cloth. They are about taking a nation's legacy of masculinity and beginning to unravel it -- asking us what it really takes to be noble and how that nobility may be based on nothing but lies. I don't know enough about the samurai genre to know how much of a bold deconstruction this is, but every frame feels like something new and fresh.
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