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Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain 2023
I like these guys, so I laughed quite a bit, but I really can't pretend this is a good movie. For one thing, it looks hideous; the snap zooms and shock cuts that turn a small office into a whole comedic world on SNL do not make for a coherent feature film. (I also wasn't a fan of mocking baptism.) I guess that's all fairly par for the course for SNL movies, though.
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich 1999
3rd or 4th viewing. A masterpiece of criticism that illuminates Tarkovsky's oeuvre without explaining it. It allows us to see and feel more deeply, pointing out things we might have missed with great poetic insight, but never claims to have found the key or falls into the trap of definition. "Some deliver sermons. The greats leave us with our freedom."
And I could listen to Alexandra Stewart's voice all day.
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Andrei Rublev 1966
Got to see it on the big screen at the IU Cinema. Even with an old print, and a brief breakdown in the middle when the sound went out, still awe-inspiring. I remembered the beginning and end very well, but there were great stretches in the middle that felt almost brand new. I had forgotten what an epic it is--the sheer scope of the battle scenes is just stunning, and magnifies the horror of it all even more.
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