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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched by Alec Lane 04 Jun 2022 9

  everyone saying this is “incoherent” or “hard to follow” or whatever is so so wrong… literally just pay attention

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  Ricochet 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched by Alec Lane 30 May 2022

  Despite my worst nightmare happening (the film stopping and having to go back into the booth to help another projectionist) twice, still an amazing flick.

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  Here and Elsewhere 1976

  Watched by Alec Lane 02 Mar 2019 2

  Embodies the 70s Godard aesthetic of excessive stimulation not only because it employs it, but because that’s what it’s dealing with on the thematic level as well. Even in the bourgeois French home, the children watch TV, then do homework, then eat dinner—an itinerary with little room for deviation. The idea of overstimulation is similar: if we are being faced with an unending succession of stimuli, which will each naturally seem to build upon the prior given the simple fact…

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  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Alec Lane 25 Apr 2019 3

  After the second watch I’m thinking this is the best movie I’ve ever seen. I’m usually not one to make this sort of judgement so hastily, but this is the kind of movie that makes you reconsider just about any other that you’ve watched. Intolerance is constantly giving you so much information that you fear throughout the runtime that you will have forgotten key elements by the end. But when the picture is finished, you can’t deny the enormity of…