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Army of Shadows 1969
Jean-Pierre Melville movies defined cool. But when that atmosphere is paired with Army of Shadows, you get a world where the characters are not traumatized by war, but apathetic to it. They never lash out violently, they simply carry on the mission. Even when Gerbier runs for his life, he does it without raising an eyebrow. Even when the double agent is strangled, he does it without moving in his chair. Even the score, although melodic, never seems to build…
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Gun Crazy 1950
May 2021
You'll be a long time searching if you're looking for characters as inventive as these ones in another crime caper from the 50s. In hindsight, the story is nothing exceptional, but the characters that drive it forward have such fully fleshed motivations and personalities that you can't help but absorb their thoughts. Even if you know that they'll probably get caught, they feel so alive to you that you become convinced they won't. "They can't possibly! I've spent…
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972
January 2020
This was my introduction to Werner Herzog, and I think I started from a good place. Herzog creates what isn't a typical character study, but more the opposite, actually. The entirety of the movie, people talk about Aguirre (Karl Kinski) and his plans, but we never hear it from him, we never catch a glimpse of what's going on inside his mind, and yet, neither does he. The movie itself mirrors Aguirre's expedition into the Amazon: it moves…
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