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The Conversation 1974
Gene’s performance is fascinating. Nuanced and conflicted and at odd’s with itself. Harrison Ford is remarkably ominous as a heel and the rest of Coppola’s regulars are great as ever. A cinematic purity to voyeuristic films like this, it could not be better suited for the art form. Love that, and the choices that lean into it, the unmotivated camera moves, the diegetic sound design, the long zooming shots. And the tactile analog nature of it that is a love letter to editorial magic of montage and filmmaking in the way Blow Out and Modern Romance are.
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The Brutalist 2024
First half sublime. Last movie thester intermission experience was Hateful 8; they’re always fun! Too many long movies these days but if you’re gonna do long, better to go for it. This was awesome. The length really contributed to the feel watching it, the experience. Still, felt stiff trying to interject some plot and drama in the 2nd half. I much preferred watching the life and the work and experiencing the front half of the film with them. The marble…
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Joint Security Area 2000
Again editing choreography. Movement through a space, not just of the people before a camera but of the camera before a people. And not even the movements of the camera but the jumps of the camera through editing. Shots and new ways of looking at a scene (and their storytelling significance) are given priority over continuity. And again, sound design makes these new looks and jump edits possible. They are punctuation marks, but not always at the end of paragraphs.…
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This Ain't California 2012
The controversial documentary that tricked audiences into believing in a fictional character created by director Marten Persiel to reinforce a genuine history of skateboarding in East Germany circa 1980. I’m not taking sides against this decision and I definitely don’t think it takes away from the piece's classification as a doc, however there are parts where the historical realities take away from the fictional through-line that is Denis “Panik” Paraceck, and not the other way around. The film starts off…
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