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Stop Making Sense 1984
Burned all my notebooks / What good are notebooks? / They won’t help me survive / My chest is aching / It burns like a furnace / The burning keeps me alive
This doc was a lifeline for me in March 2020 and then it became a bared-teeth expression of defiance in the face of pain and now it’s a rager of a party. Whenever Demme frames the stage so you can see the concert audience out of focus in the…
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The Blair Witch Project 1999
Watching this movie for the first time sitting next to my husband, who is named Josh, was very unsettling.
This felt like every urban legend, creepypasta, and nosleep Reddit thread distilled down into bare bones. I'm not sure it could have been made anywhere else. It's so ordinary and its characters are so self-important and insecure. It's an American ghost story brought to life, scuffed up and then abandoned like so much trash in the woods. I'm never going camping again.
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F for Fake 1973
“Our songs will all be silenced. But what of it? Go on singing. Maybe a man’s name doesn’t matter all that much.”
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Poor Things 2023
You can stuff it in unending lace and ruffles, but an overly simplistic worldview is an overly simplistic worldview. This feels like an acting exercise gone wrong, and while I love the production design, it still doesn’t manage to distract from the fact that the film simply doesn’t know what to do with Bella once she’s no longer a child. Enthusiasm isn’t empowerment, and the movie doesn’t even make a stab at answering the “so what?” that comes after Bella takes control.
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