Sátántangó. Not gonna lie, the only reason I watched this movie was so that I could say that I had. This is the bleak Bela Tarr drama that follows a community from a rural commune in post-Soviet Hungarian countryside. It’s only grown in reputation since it was made in 1994, and is now an art house classic. Its claim to fame though, is its runtime. It clocks in at seven hours and 19 minutes. It’s something of a white whale…
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Past Lives 2023
This was the best experience I had in a movie theater in a long time. I am eager to watch it again because I found my mind wandering frequently throughout the movie. Now, I realize that sounds damning but in this case it's not. My mind wandered precisely because it triggered so many complicated responses within me. My mind drifted partly as a self-defense mechanism--my fear at confronting my inability to live in the present. It draws you in as…
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Citizen Kane 1941
Citizen Kane is so often spoken of in hushed tones, as though it is a museum piece to be admired and analyzed. Or it’s remembered simply as a place-holder for the top of a particular class: “such and such is the Citizen Kane of fill-in-the-blank.” And then you will inevitably get the hot take, “Well, it’s important for introducing all these camera techniques, but now that those techniques are commonplace, we really don’t need it anymore.” Perhaps the film is…
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