I forgot about watching movies, but I'm going to try it again in 2023.
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Soul 2020
Loved this movie, with one complaint: it really was a missed opportunity to not get an actual jazz or jazz-adjacent musician to do *all* of the soundtrack. The Reznor and Ross pieces were nice and quite serviceable, but when I imagine what Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington, or someone/anyone in jazz might have done I start to get a little angry about it. I'm therefore taking off 1/2 star from this otherwise perfect movie for the failure to fully commit to jazz.
Thundercat. Definitely should have been Thundercat.
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The Dybbuk 1937
Film School Drop Outs – Weekly Challenge 2018
Week 7 - (2018) - Movement - Golden Age of Yiddish Cinema (1936-1940)I thought I had a lot of patience for slow, weird, obscure movies, but this one was a particular challenge for me; after falling asleep while trying to watch it two nights in a row, I nearly didn’t make it through, and I feel bad about that. Despite its failure to keep my interest, it is no doubt important…
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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ 1906
Film School Drop Outs Challenge Week 1
Auteurs - Pioneers of Film - Lumiere Brothers (Filmography), George Melies (Filmography) or Alice Guy-Blache (Filmography)
The baby Jesus was super cute, sitting up, waving and clapping hands as the magi come. I'm not sure I've ever seen a nativity scene where the baby has an actual baby personality. The sudden appearance/disappearance of angels playing music for the sleeping baby made me laugh. The early ambition of the rest of the movie is…