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Poor Things 2023
Great fun; sometimes you just want to see a bunch of gorgeous costumes, crazy Gilliam-esque sets, and a talented cast getting to cut loose. (Big props to Ruffalo as the cad lothario doing his best Terry-Thomas impression.) It's a ride through the standard Lanthimos Themes (human existence as a cosmic joke where we're all slaves to our biology and/or the social structures we find ourselves in) but with a more optimistic spin than usual, where that meaninglessness becomes a kind of freedom.
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Sunset Boulevard 1950
Billy Wilder, man. One of the greatest simultaneous tributes to and takedowns of Hollywood. The cast is perfect, as is the script. A classic Wilder protagonist, who dreams big but not big enough to hide his failings. And the all-time record for actor/director stunt-casting.
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Point Blank 1967
It's been so long since I saw this that I remembered it in brief, impressionistic flashes - which as it turns out, is perfect for the experience of the film itself. It's a brutal pulp narrative shattered into shards and weaved back together with New Wave grammar and a touch of straight-up surrealism.
Lee Marvin, suited to lurking in monochrome noir, is here turned loose in a blazing daylight 60s modernist Technicolour nightmare. Boorman makes great use of Los Angeles…