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Django Unchained 2012
Need to watch it a second time but, right now, I think quoting a Robert Christgau review of an OutKast record doesn't seem like a bad idea: "just commercial ebullience, creative confidence, and wretched excess, blessed excess, impressive excess".
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Safety Not Guaranteed 2012
Duplass and Plaza give great performances but the movie's insane sense of optimism just doesn't feel right to me. It's the second film I've seen recently where the screenplay loves it's characters so much it just forces itself to give them a happy ending (the other one was "All About My Mother" but at least that one had some interesting stuff going on). The indie equivalent of Oscar bait type movies. In the end it's a harmless, pleasant little object but so is a mattress.
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The Dreamers 2003
"The street came flying into the room!" Isabelle screams and, just like the window, my love for this movie broke. I guess it's something of a strange triumph that Bertolucci makes the viewers so comfortable with Isa and Theo's world that, when we finally have to leave, something feels off. An ending is often what makes or breaks a picture and this one left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I was prepared to dismiss the entire film…
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Contempt 1963
I don't even know how to begin to write about this film. Everything is very clear yet, as with the best of Godard's movies, it's impossible to have a verbal or written response to a work of art so tied to the medium of cinema. If I was making a video-essay, most of it would be devoted to the extended apartment sequence which seems to be linear but could actually be various moments in time, a deconstruction of an entire…
