Letterboxd — Your life in film

This feels like the one universe where Chris Cooper isn’t talked about every day as one of our great actors (and hell he still got an Oscar in this one) but right out the gate he dominates a film that could easily crumble with anything less, PLUS James Earl Jones meeting him pound for pound. Glad this finally got a great release on Criterion because you will be floored.

90 minutes of fluff and (more) fan service mixed with a solid 30 minutes of Sam Raimi getting to do Sam Raimi shit. Worth it alone for that (at least once) but man does this multiverse not even come close to the enjoyment and creativity of EEAAO amiright?

Is this the coziest Cold War movie ever?
Is this the BEST Cold War movie ever?
Weird to think less than seven years ago it felt like dealings with Russians felt like the distant past, but as the book says… yeah.

Love Language ended with words of affirmation, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is my new Love Language

It really is a Dog eat Dog world AMIRIGHT??!!??

I guess I’ll be the one Stan on the hill for this beastly beast, I just dug the whole “kill the past but with style” esthetic mixed with Edgar Wright’s hyper-fan filmmaking. I mean Jesus we can’t hate every non-superhero movie if they don’t revolutionize art itself right? Give me more fan films like this!

After seeing Belfast yesterday and CODA today I’ll say I think this year’s Oscar fluff is better than it has been, I like how there has been a hard pushback to “solving issues” like Greenbook and instead just existing in the world of the films. Good enough for me!

This movie is corny
(Slaps knee for eternity)

Jesus this is already five years old???

Chekhov’s Affair

Black and White version! I loved the color in the original but there is an intimacy that flows out of the B&W. Honestly might be two different movies in my mind, both of which I adore.