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Crimes of the Future 2022
“Surgery is the new sex.”
Surprisingly moving exploration of Cronenberg’s fascination with human bodies and our symbiotic relationship with our manufactured surroundings. What worth is performance if it exists only for momentary passing pleasures? Perhaps there is worth to it, but art and presentation can be so much more meaningful. It is destruction of the old and creation of something new. We watch people struggle to create that new constantly, outcast and rebuked as something inhuman. Characters demand mankind remain…
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The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
Feels a little weak to call it simply a rebuke of Anderson's harshest critics. I'm sorry, I thought we all *wanted* our artists to be idiosyncratic weirdos even if we don't vibe with their work. Somehow it's bad when this guy does it? But nevertheless, Andreson's deepest dive into his own aesthetic pleasures and unfolds his saddest, most moving work to date. A story about the rise of fascism, class conflict and the ideals we project onto people and places…
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Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
“Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see
One chance out between two worlds
Fire walk with me.”FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON’T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN “TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN”
In the original run of Twin Peaks David Lynch and Mark Frost were never going to say who killed Laura Palmer. Only after pressure from executives at ABC did they reveal the murderer. Lynch called Laura Palmer’s death “the goose that laid the…
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The Director and the Jedi 2018
Not emotionally ready to revisit the masterpiece so I'll watch this nifty doc instead. Highlights:
- You mean motherfucking Rian Johnson was casually under pressure of directing one of the biggest movies ever in the most holy grail of film franchises all the while being endlessly followed by the doc crew? I would have just cried in a corner wtf legends only
- The casino planet is filled with a bunch of weird creatures and great extras layered in extravagant…
