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Hollywood or Bust 1956
maybe it’s just because Freddy Got Fingered is on the Criterion Channel right now but i kept thinking of Tom Green watching Jerry. both end up playing aggravating manchildren opposite ostentatiously adult foils because the comedy itself is fundamentally childlike—it’s not grounded in character at all, the character is if anything aged up, and devised to justify far earlier developmental impulses.
they’re like a kid who figures out that when they blow wet air through their lips, it makes a funny…
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Heroes Shed No Tears 1984
when you’re doing practical explosions in the jungle, it will scare the birds, and they will fly in front of the camera, and that will look cool… i wonder if this HK spin on Val Verdecore, with lifts from DEER HUNTER and spaghetti Westerns, is where Woo got the doves from
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The Comfort of Strangers 1990
as with all top-tier Schrader, if you told me this movie was directed by a virgin, i would believe you
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TÁR 2022
Art is real, and the enrichment it adds to people’s lives is as material as the harm done to people by abusers; these different types of material are difficult to weigh out fairly, and if you see people tweeting things like “Lydia Tár did nothing wrong!” it’s because Todd Field has created a safe space for us to mourn what gets lost in the triage when we (necessarily!) prioritize the untreated wounds of the directly harmed—a lament which runs against…