Baked in a crispy crust of celluloid. (Gross.)
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Thanksgiving 2023
What a disappointment. I happen to think Roth is a great scholar and fine acolyte of horror, but even the horror here was pretty limpid and rote. And while I appreciate all the crowd-sourcing with his young cast for contemporary slang (in theory), when it’s all that’s crammed into their interactions it’s hard to feel much for any of these walking cliches of online discourse. Should’ve A-listed this cuz it died on the vine at home.
In short: should have been gorier and more nihilistic towards the entire damn cast (for all I cared).
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Annie Hall 1977
Gives me no real pleasure to report this is still fantastic; sui generis Allen. A 93 minute gem crafted (allegedly) out of 3 hours of joyless, laff-less shit. Anhedonia, indeed.
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The Birth of a Nation 1915
The old argument goes that the showmanship of Griffith's film outweighs its deplorable racism; that argument, however, is full of shit. (There were far better silent films that advanced film grammar without any of the hideous ideology.)