Soldier Courage and Her Unlikely Bedfellows travel an otherworldly Bohemia in search of inner havens. Long arms of war and misfortune claw at them from afar; many a Pangloss shatters and withers in turn. "Rawney" Tom is their gift, giving and taking at the whim of his fears, and reality turns his disappearing act into a parable on cowardice inflicted. If there truly is a best of all worlds, then only the young and the lucky will find it. Hoskins turns to face the ruined garden, his gun to its sackers and his back to the dim future.
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A Man There Was 1917
The Old Man and the Sjöström.
A barrow of reeds and branches frames the English jolly-boat on patrol until it falls victim to its creator, a cunning pilot now on-stage. We meet him first buried under grief and plight, then in the middle of his career at risk; only at the end is he found at rest. Muted monochromes of the land duel with warmer windy shots for control, whether following Terje Vigen or the demise of the bourgeois at…
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Seven Samurai 1954
There are too many ways to review a great movie like this. So I'm going to start at the stop and end at this flick's beginning. Does that sound okay?
To be honest, Seven Samurai's ending speaks more thematically than the rest of the film. Every important plot event happens prior to Kambei, Shichiroji, and the pupil Katsushiro staring at the distant harvest before them—but this solemn finale takes the formal precedents established in earlier parts of the movie and…
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
So I saw this in 70mm for the first time (it's also my first screening of it in a theatre, for starters).
I'll just say this: if a group of famous directors got together to produce a fantasy anthology version of 2001, David Lynch should and probably would direct the penultimate hotel sequence. It's right up his alley: constant referencing of abstract models through different art-forms; oppressive sound design that implies both death and rebirth; convincingly symbolic transformations of Keir…