Jennings

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Favorites: Recently loved films.
My ratings spread is weird, my taste is weirder.

Louisville, KY

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Skinamarink 2022

★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2023

Seeing this in a theater with a handful of people, not quite alone but not quite surrounded, was a perfect way to experience this. Seeing it on a large screen, your eyes begin to play tricks on you as you study each corner of the frame for something that might be hiding, or find yourself suddenly shocked by a fade or cut you didn't expect. Skinamarink has a rhythmic nature to it reminiscent of Meshes of the Afternoon, but where…
Babylon 2022

★★★½ Watched 05 Jan 2023

Chazelle is attempting for Great American Novel heights with this epic number full of interconnected stories, elongated sequences in between fragmented historical developments, and all of that stuff really works. I could go on for hours about the various characters and their ties to actual film history, and how Chazelle depicts the relentless nature of filmmaking - filled with seemingly divine interventions amidst hellish chaos - and its gradual degradation into sheltered manufacturing where precision overcomes passion. It is in…

Fear 2023

★½ Watched 28 Jan 2023

The script is extremely bare bones and the rushed production leads to a lot of bad ADR and a lot of half baked sequences. It occasionally adopts a grain soaked aesthetic when characters are trapped in nightmare sequences that’s visually interesting, but still doesn’t offer much.
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris 1970

Watched 26 Jan 2023

Baldwin is apprehensive and pondering here, actively challenging the intents and the process of the filmmakers the whole way through. It creates a unique documentary that is built on a foundation of friction and constructed out of a genuine, though misguided, desire to understand and convey that understanding through the lens of art. Perhaps one of my favorite documentaries ever.