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  Blow-Up 1966

  ★★ Watched by Evelyn 28 Jun 2022

  De Palma, and hell, even Michael Powell outsold in terms of "using the mechanics of cinema to explore voyeurism". David Hemmings adds some brief moments of comedic physicality, and there certainly are inspired moments of dreaminess. Just fucking boring, though.

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  Elvis 2022

  ★★★ Watched by Evelyn 25 Jun 2022

  "This could all be over in a flash"
  ...and it was.

  Shuffles between so many dizzyingly disparate ideas: a reverse-psychological hageograph, a holistic canvas of two decades of Americana, a bohemian spectacle, before ultimately settling on a convenient and comfortable retelling of Faust from Tom Parker's point of view, painting the image of capital as him, an amorphous identity (a mix between a court jester and vaguely antisemitic signifiers), and Presley as the vanguard towards autonomy, sexuality, liberation, etc. Not…

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  Ambulance 2022

  ★★★★ Watched by Evelyn 24 Jun 2022

  Brutal fucking architecture. Real cowboy shit. The humanist yin to Pain and Gain's noxiously nihilistic yang. Bay finally returned to lower orbit to make a movie and god damn does it show.

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  Speed Racer 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Evelyn 11 Jun 2022

  An excerpt from an interview conducted with the Wachowskis, regarding the intense stylizations of the film:

  "The whole impetus for Speed Racer came out of the fact that we are visually oriented people. We go [in]to the Art Institute and every room there [has] paintings which look completely and utterly different from the other rooms. But in cinema, everything looks the same...and it's a really aggressive straightjacket. We started talking about cubism, for instance and how we could make a…