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The Great Gatsby 2013
(Showplace ICON) What a mess. Both the visuals and the audio are so sporadic and with no flow whatsoever, there is not a single sequence to engage with. Is there a story in there somewhere? I was so exhausted after 20 minutes of flashy CGI-induced "camerawork," I could care less.
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Post Tenebras Lux 2013
(Walker Cinema) Scored one of those posters, by the way. Reygadas' cinematic display of emblems is anything but a bag of non sequiturs, as it might seem, but instead is the reverberations closely tied to the flawed but very human psyche of Juan. Within it we see the rage, the love, the hubris, and the long form distillation of privilege - all instruments found in the devil's toolbox, if you want to get more literal. (Although he seems set to…
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The Grandmaster 2013
(Blu-ray - Trylon microcinema: Sharing with my friends - suck it again Weinsteins.) I'm settling into THE GRANDMASTER as a fascinating entry into Wong's oeuvre and into the wuxia genre.
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Spring Breakers 2013
(Showplace ICON) Korine makes a far more palatable TRASH HUMPERS for the multiplex, but instead of creating a commentary on the sensory pursuits of adulthood, he scribes a memento for youth and the live-fast-fuck-you energy right before it fades. Taking a rare feminine tilt on the rage against the machine, SPRING BREAKERS is a hotbed of cultural riff-raff (drugs, sex, money, guns, power) that fumes without the blasé pedantic context or patronizing moral compass. All funneled through a sun-drenched drug-induced fever dream--take that MTV.
