Somehow I thought I had seen this, but I hadn't. Luckily we watched it at L'Abri this evening and had a lovely discussion afterwards. I don't have all the words now, but it's absolute masterpiece and the gold standard for Christian cinema. It's a meditative poem in visual form - but given the expectations people have built up around it, the story was also a lot more linear than I expected? More than anything, it blows me away how much…
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year 2008
energetic campiness combined with legitimate and vibrant craftmanship. the increase in production value for this one is wild and you can tell our guy Kenny Ortega was just waiting for somebody to give him the money to really go for it. choreography and production design and lighting and on-location musical numbers that have more excellence than most musicals today. In The Heights had five times the budget of HSM3 and it manages to look ten times cheaper. this was back when a…
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The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
a movie about a girl, who reads a book about a man, who hears a story about a lobby boy, who meets a man who runs a hotel, a hotel for which the story, the book, and the movie are named for
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Princess Mononoke 1997
avatar (2009): who are you?
princess mononoke (1997): I’m you, but with real thematic depth and thought-provoking nuance