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La La Land 2016
La La Land remains good, actually. Gorgeously shot, featuring two of our great modern movie stars with just off-the-charts chemistry, and an absolute all-timer ending.
It’s not the movie’s fault that everyone was riddled with brain worms in December of 2016.
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Star Wars 1977
I just got to see STAR WARS projected from an immaculate 70mm print. The original STAR WARS, pre-special edition (“A New Hope” was on the crawl, but otherwise unaltered). It’s an impossible dream come true, and I’m so extremely grateful for this opportunity. It was a 70mm print struck for the UK in ‘81 that was never screened because it tore the first time it was projected. There’s about two seconds of major damage right as the Death Star explodes,…
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The Thief and the Cobbler 1993
1992 Workprint.
The auteur theory has become accepted to the point of being almost axiomatic within the critical community and the larger film industry, but I’ve found that the most purely auteurist works also stand as warnings against the idea that any film can function solely based on one person’s vision.
THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER is such a warning.
As a technical experiment and an act of unbridled artistic hubris from one of the great animators of all time,…