The Real Matt Wright™. Into music, film and culture. Also guy who makes internet at Square.
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Chan Is Missing 1982
What a treasure.
Heard about this via Joe Talbot’s review here on Letterboxd, wasn’t sure I’d ever be able to actually see it, so was super to excited to see it arrive on the Criterion Channel.
Special on many levels, but here are some (speaking as someone who lives in San Francisco):
1. Fascinating window into San Francisco’s Chinese community specifically, and the complexity of immigrant identity more broadly. The way it plays this off of noir tropes is brilliant.…
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Untitled Pizza Movie 2020
Sublime. What you think is a quirky retro 90s VHS goof just keeps expanding its emotional, temporal and geographic aperture until it encompasses all of the unknowable depth and beauty of life itself. Which does thankfully still include pizza.
Beyond its intense emotional resonance, this is also such a formally brilliant and totally unique work. Is it a super long movie (the title seems to think it is) or a kind of serial TV show? The editing is perfect. The…
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Person to Person 2017
Enjoyed this, the first movie I’ve watched from start to finish in one night this year (new parenthood has impacted the shit out of my viewing habits). Has a real 90s indie feel to it, with all the interconnected storylines and low stakes comedy/drama with a little crime sprinkled in. Lotsa great actors in here too. Philip Baker Hall and Isiah Whitlock Jr in the same frame was a treat. Too bad Brian Tyree Henry only gets like one line in.
🤘 suck the greed 🤘
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Ordinary People 1980
More movies about men going to therapy. Also more men going to therapy.
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