much to appreciate from a filmmaking standpoint in terms of set-pieces and tension-building (glad i saw it in a theater).
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2022
was in a mood. this helped, in ways that i imagine rhyme with the majority of the online filmgoing population and ways i'd like to cherish for myself. for any animated family movies going forward, giving me anything less than "life-affirming existential visual explosion" might not cut it.
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La Haine 1995
movies like this encapsulate everything i love about this artistic medium.
it's pure portraiture. a neverending argument from simultaneously conversational and complex perspectives. the door's been busted down, and the doorway leads into a world ruled by tension and rebelled against by those it manifests the rawest within.
nothing spells "timeless" like a piece of art with something it's burning to say and the knowledge of exactly how to say it, and this movie turns the camera into a megaphone like few i've seen.
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Nobody 2012
a stark, unfurnished, mostly implicit, yet nevertheless compelling portrait of human behavior in its economical but elusive character study.
although the film has a start and stop point, its physical beginning and ending is not its narrative beginning and ending. to this extent hayes constructs a film that exists in a strange limbo.
i can easily see someone writing this off as self indulgent or stagnant filmmaking, but with the atmosphere it quietly builds together with a small handful of…
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