I'm so glad I got to see this one in theaters back during its original run. Got an audience of the sort of folks who are gonna show up for a limited run of a Godzilla movie by the Evangelion guy -- some weebs, some toku nerds, some real heads -- all giggling to each other because they know this is a Godzilla movie, and the characters on the screen do not. They're in on the joke, waiting for the…
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Inherent Vice 2014
Often compared to The Big Lebowski, but exponentially funnier and sadder. I think it's because it isn't as preoccupied with its own cuteness/cleverness as the average Coen Bros movie; it is still both of those things, but without being so cloyingly eager to impress. A series of free-floating vignettes that barely cohere into a narrative but they're such goddamn good vignettes that, like, who cares? Captures the ambient "this city is driving everyone inside it crazy" radiation that still spills…
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Tropical Malady 2004
I feel like parts of Uncle Boonmee went a bit over my head, or I understood them but only with a clinical remove. This one hit me in the gut. A sweet, heady, carefree love story between two young men (and it's so sweet!) gives way to a different story: a hunter stalks a maneating, supernatural beast through the jungle, in a style that's equal parts fairy tale, ghost story and the film Predator. Realizing the connection between these two stories -- not a literal narrative thread, but an emotional one that feels obvious in retrospect -- made my heart sink.
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010
There is a direct, unbroken continuity between civilization and nature, man and animal, life and death, the mundane and the divine and the fantastical. They are all right next to each other. You can walk out into the woods and marry an ape and become an ape. A fairy tale is an experience you had when you were someone else, who died and became you, as you will die again and become someone else. You can take off your streetclothes…
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