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Godzilla Minus One 2023
This country never changes. Perhaps it can't.
SHIN GODZILLA sees the kaiju as entropy, the engine of a chaotic universe on a fast track to mass-immolation. GODZILLA MINUS ONE sees the kaiju as an opportunity; to mourn the past, to question our faith, and to work as a collective to accomplish what the state cannot.
There couldn't be two more different approaches to the same subject, but both are absolute masterpieces.
The climax to this film is a show-stopper.
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Priscilla 2023
I'm just afraid you'll forget me.
One of the year's best and one of Sofia Coppola's best. PRISCILLA is a complete thought, and as fully-realized a vision as (my personal fav Coppola) MARIE ANTOINETTE. Every facet of this film is designed to further the film's central exploration of loneliness, as well as it's deft deconstruction of American mythos. Fairy tales like this one very much only exist in facsimile, and Coppola's film feels exactly like that: a series of dreams…
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The Last Year of Darkness 2023
Very cool! Both a functioning city symphony and a people's history of a specific alt-scene.
I work in public history, and I often sit at my desk and read about places that no longer exist, and it's a toss-up when conducting research; if you dig deeper, you're equally likely to find absolutely nothing or a wealth of voices fondly reminiscing about the places and spaces of their collective past. We owe it to ourselves (and to the future!) to care…
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