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Dream Scenario 2023
Yeah, next time let Kaufman write the story. The amazing premise is turned into a dreary one dimensional tale on the dangers of instant fame in the 21st century. People are assholes, fact, I guess.
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The Secret of Kells 2009
Beautiful anime in a very personal style. A slightly unusual subject perhaps, which is a good thing. The story is fairly predictable although the trippier moments do compensate substantively.
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Possession 1981
Renée Jeanne Falconetti’s performance in La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) is often held up as a touchstone of acting. Fair enough, but Isabelle Adjani in Possession (1981) has to be placed in the same league. The French actress gives the most physical and intense performance ever captured on film, full of mood swings, glares, hysterics, tears and a host of other bodily fluids (Adjani was rightly named best actress at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.)
Andrzej Żuławski's dark film…
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Blade Runner 1982
Here we have one of the few examples of a director’s cut that actually improves a film. Or should we say finishes the film? I first saw Blade Runner on VHS (woozy from having my wisdom teeth pulled) in the version that was taken away from Ridley Scott and sort of tanked at the box office. Now this version to my young eyes, who didn’t know anything about the film and the surrounding production, was already amazing. Actually, when I…