indie filmmaker uses Lynch’s dream storytelling and old school expressionism to work through his mommy issues and severe shame complex left by his suburban home town, feeling like this movie was made just for me <3
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Bergman Island 2021
My mouth dropped at that last shot on the boat like it was a fucking Marvel post-credits scene
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019
If you thought Toy Story 4 was unnecessary, boy do I have a summer movie for you
This has one of the dopest final scenes I’ve ever seen and the Hollywood satire stuff is pretty funny but the pacing and stakes SUCK. Also, Tarantino and DiCaprio is the most masturbatory pair to ever make a film.Tho I really did like the part where USC bragged about their ~35 mm~ copy of the movie but it lost audio like 10 minutes in and they couldn’t get it back so we just watched it digitally
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Rebuilding Paradise 2020
Ron Howard is such a simple, meat-and-potatoes director and that somehow makes him the absolute perfect person to make this kind of film.
his unpretentious simplicity and unconditional empathy allow him to let the downright apocalyptic events of this movie unfold matter-of-factly in a way that refuses to drown in style over substance or force a heavy-handed message.
we had a lot of climate change movies before this and we’re gonna have a lot after but Ron’s honest, human-based storytelling…
