I watched this thinking it was everything, all-encompassing, yet Mekas and his subject matter kept conveying this entire project was about nothing. From the thirty years of home movies and everyday photography, this is all locality and fleeting, transcendence in the recognizable. The filmmer (as he would not call himself a 'filmmaker') perfectly portrays what the title promises : As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. The contents may be microscopic, but the final product…
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The Act of Killing 2012
English & French included. / Anglais et Français inclus.
Initially interested in field workers who wanted to unionize in dictatorial Indonesia, documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer found something seething inside the people he met. Trauma, fear, hatred for the greedy powers that be, which seized power in 1965-1966 with mass killings of everyone 'agreed upon' to be of Chinese descent, communist, revolutionary, or fun to eviscerate. Militia, gangsters, and policemen took people in their homes, took what/who they wanted, killed fathers, husbands, and…
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The Substance 2024
This movie fucks.
The Substance made waves at its premiere and I get that it isn't for everybody. When we exited the theater, Nathan commented that the tone fell completely flat for him (funny in the wrong parts, oppressive in the worst bits). The film is not subtle about its themes and doesn’t conclude narrative threads properly, but I am not bothered by these facts. Rather, I am extremely happy to have been so incredibly entertained by this powerhouse of…
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Alien: Romulus 2024
Nastyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Alien: Romulus is not as bloody as some would have hoped, but it has a lot to offer as compensation. Àlvarez' camera swirls so effectively, some setpieces are great, and every department went hard. Practical and Virtual Effects were superb (with a few exceptions, I'm afraid), the lighting and color palette were distinct, and we had at the very least one stand-out performance in the form of David Jonnson (I want to see him in more stuff, what a…
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