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All You Need Is Death 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
If the tone of the first half was kept throughout, this would have been a higher score for me. The soundtrack was doing a lot of work, but I liked how it gave a sense of realism with a malevolent presence underneath. The black smudges wandering around the screen were much scarier than the flashbacks and the creature at the end. Basically, as the horror got more overt, it became less effective.
That said, it's well worth watching. I would like to see Paul Duane adapt an A.M. Shine novel.
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Branded to Kill 1967
There was a while where I was not fully understanding what I was watching. Probably my fault for watching this after playing Yakuza and thinking “I want to see a classic Yakuza movie”. I expected it to be a 60s cool guy movie. There’s some of that. But it’s a film that left me thinking “What did I watch?”
When he met the main antagonist, it really started to click for me. The bizarre cuts, the strange fetishism, and other elements fell into place.
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Ikiru 1952
Watching a bunch of elected officials and executives callously try to take credit for the work of a mid-level bureaucrat as they get drunker, watch the public mourn his passing, claim to carry on his legacy, then go back to the same old conservative government inefficiency... was not relatable at all. Nothing to watch here.
In all seriousness, as cliche as it is to praise Kurosawa, this movie deserves it. I've only seen three of his movies so far, but I appreciate how he has mastered the art of being.. artful while also being accessible. There is a clarity here that isn't heavy handed.
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Nosferatu 2024
It might be a hot take, but I preferred this over The Witch. I was worried because I felt like The Northman was a big of a slog. But it earned its runtime and I will have to see it again once it's streaming. Will have to watch The Lighthouse to complete the filmography now I guess.
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