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Black Bag 2025
Soderbergh’s work-life, office-domestic, thriller-romance balancing act shows more of his hand than David Koepp’s in conception, throwing Fassbender in dark oversized frames and Blanchett in a (stunning) brunette wig resembling his and Jules Asner’s child-free (on a technicality) personal/professional partnership. Under the hood, the ruthless efficiency and commercial structure of Koepp’s pen is there, from a corny but pleasing prologue banter turning to visual grace note to he plot kicking into the third act at minute ~60 of 94.
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Rancho Notorious 1952
Lang gets a chance at the psychological western that Anthony Mann swiped from under him with Winchester ’73, although a less keen eye would notice games of chance on spinning wheels/fallen women hiding dashing criminals/recurrent balladry/garish technicolor and point to Johnny Guitar as an easier comparison.
Some real choice stuff here — nobody would think to shoot a western brawl so tight besides Lang, the chronological slingshot from present to memory to a purgatorial standstill is so slickly executed you…
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The Night Porter 1974
keeping my thoughts on this film between me and the lord. nobody should be proclaiming strong opinions on this picture in public spaces.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
A film made for people who read wikipedia pages instead of books.
Sad to see we are in for a future of millennial cinema centered around the idea the only thing propagating conflict is people not getting exactly what they want, as soon as they want it, all smuggled in under the guise of representational credentials and Reddit liberal politics.
The modern world is so horrible, but we all actually could be the center of the universe in some other…
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