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Planet of the Vampires 1965
Hooptober 6.0 | 18/32 | Special Effects: Carlo Rambaldi | Countries 2/6 | Spain
The spaceship Argos catapults through space. Inside, figures in black leather cut with yellow observe technical tools that observe Aura, the planet below them. Despite the signal they are receiving, they cannot detect any life.
They prepare for a landing on the planet and relay to their sister ship, Galliot. But as they communicate with Galliot, they lose transmission from it and the planet's signal.
A…
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The Seventh Continent 1989
Criterion Challenge 2024 | 12/52 | First Films - watch a directorial debut
In 1987, Anna and Georg sit in the car as it runs through an automatic car wash. The camera sits in the backseat as the wash goes through its steps.
At 6 AM, the alarm goes off. Anna and Georg get up, put on their robes, and start their day.
Brush teeth. Wake up their daughter, Eva. Tie Oxfords. Feed fish. Make coffee. Remind George to wear…
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The American Society of Magical Negroes 2024
Was Sorry to Bother You too confrontational? Did Dear White People still make you feel guilty? Was American Fiction's dated critique too pointed?
Here's a toothless movie about white fragility that doesn't functionally critique the respectability politics it lampoons. But don't worry, we get a speech near the end that amounts to, "Did you know Black Lives Matter?"
Here's what I liked: the movie had some funny jokes, Justice Smith and An-Li Bogan had moments of palpable on-screen chemistry, and…
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Hella Trees 2020
I remember being in art school and finding obsessions. There’s always a fear of being perceived as naive or undereducated about a subject since “it’s all been done before” or whatever. But when you can just let yourself go and lose that fear a bit, it can feel vital and freeing, like I don’t have to think about what I’m going to make for a bit, it’s just going to focus on this
Anyway, I feel like this short captured that feeling pretty perfectly