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A Complete Unknown 2024
I liked this film a lot, although I did go in with some anxieties as to the Hollywood-isation of the story. I think it worked, but as someone who might call themselves a Dylan fan, I can see where some of the fabrications and smudgings are. 'Judas!' in Newport and not Manchester; the treatment and fabrication of Suze Rottolo into 'Sylvie'. I think it's a great film about someone entering a scene and then growing out of it. And it…
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Modern Times 1936
A masterpiece. Chaplin's set-pieces are always vastly entertaining, and whilst occasionally veering ever-so-slightly into the episodic, this helps in conveying the film's sense of the individual never quite making it in the face of a profit-loving, big-business society. The set design in the factory scenes are exquisite, and the camera work is remarkably modern, especially in the scenes shot on location. Voices only emanating from the machinery of those in charge probes at the characters' inability to express and have…
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Asteroid City 2023
Come on, watching three films in a month? Who is this man?
I liked this film, which is probably partly because I buy into the whole Wes Anderson schtick, and I respect him sticking to his thing.
So it was good, and there was a moment where I nearly thought of squeezing out a tear. The film is both pretty transparent and pretty opaque; horses for courses; half a dozen of one and nine Chihuahua loads of the other.
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