goated. as someone myself more Salieri than Mozart, more technician than performer, more workhorse than genius, minor star if any in the firmament, it's a great look at that particular type when it cannot be at peace with itself. and suffers, and spites God, and admires and loves what it hates and is tortured by. the madness of a man split in half! but yknow, being Mozart's not great either. "forgive me..." very funny to see poor Salieri asleep in…
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An Unfinished Film 2024
interesting. I'm a bit ashamed to admit how irritating the video calls sometimes became, or the way the New Year's scene had me pressing fingers to temple and thumb to cheek, in that classic "I'm watching something that grates" pose. but that was quarantine; we were sentimental then, at least at points. appreciated the structure, the way the initial velocity of the plot is brought to a bottle-episode halt, the use of archival footage and the very real history at…
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The Substance 2024
people I know—mostly men, for reasons I’m still not quite sure of—would sometimes tell me how much they disliked Julia Ducournau, or how they didn’t trust her as a filmmaker. something about how over-the-top they felt her films were, or how shallow their critiques (or maybe incoherent was the charge?), relative to the content’s plays for outrage. admittedly I have only this film to go off of, but I wonder if Coralie Fargeat isn’t the one who actually deserves those…
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The Brutalist 2024
what answer is there for the world’s evil. is there a place still for Old World gentility when the New World’s brutality enters the scene. how pure was that Old World gentility anyway; what appetites and rages did it mask, and whom if anyone did it save
at one early point, I was set to make an “another plane has hit the twin towers” type of joke, like, this just in: the director of Vox Lux has made another Vox…
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