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autumn hymn: from the clouds 2024
This is perfectly lovely, often painterly in its deep reds and browns. Hints of early Brakhage certainly detected, but Joshua's clearly "on his own shit." I had trouble following the logic of the editing, but then I watched it only once.
But it's those zooms that really stick out. The light and gesture in this film renders things stately and Rembrandt-like. (No problem there!) But the zooms are like a puncturing of that aura, a sudden violence. So it's like an establishment of a tone and then an abrupt jolt into something else.
More zooms, Josh!
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023
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(0:33)
- "We're so close..."
- "so deeply embedded in spycraft..."
- "...that we finish each other's..."
- "exposition!"
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Creepy 2016
[6]
I miss the old Kiyoshi. The can't-be-sold Kiyoshi. Back in the fold Kiyoshi. That was the bold Kiyoshi. Remember Cure Kiyoshi? That wasn't your Kiyoshi? 'Cause that was my Kiyoshi. Damn, that was fly, Kiyoshi! You came with Kairo, Kiyoshi. That shit was fire, Kiyoshi! Even Bright Future Kiyoshi, that ill repute Kiyoshi. I dug it all, Kiyoshi. So why'd you stall, Kiyoshi? And then that Journey to the Shore? You got some gall, Kiyoshi!
I miss the real…
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The Imitation Game 2014
[4]
If you happen to follow my Twitter feed, you'll know that I've already gotten a bit hot and bothered about this film. In retrospect, it was probably a good deal of energy wasted, or at least misdirected. I tend to forget that useless dreck like The Imitation Game is pimped on every streetcorner around Oscar season by an industry that considers movies as product, not art. Most of the time, that product is slathered in Adam Sandler, and it…