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Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story 2022
Boilerplate stuff, formally speaking, but I really liked how they spent almost the entire first half on Savile building up his public persona as a caddish eccentric and altruistic do-gooder rather than constantly toggle between his fame and his heinous crimes. The choice to focus solely on one victim is also a strong decision imo. More effective and keeps it from feeling exploitative
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Jackie Brown 1997
• Tarantino, like PTA with Magnolia, made a young man’s old man film, an elegy to vinyl in the jewel case era. (Fitting that Max compromises with a cassette.) It’s somewhat self-fulfilling that a director making something about the difficulty of aging, of being a walking relic, would immediately retreat into the past — or pastiche — for the rest of his career. Reappraisal has hardened into consensus (on LB, anyway) but the trajectory his career would’ve taken had this…