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Losing Ground 1982
Every politico-philosophical, aesthetic, and poetic foundation I’d ever want in a film like this. Simply fucking brilliant. The last phone booth scene talking to her mom, the origin of the film’s title, is devastating. To quote samhunter’s review, Noah Baumbach owes Kathleen Collins a (fat) check (though, as much as I like Baumbach, none of his films possess even a quarter of the teeth of Collins' work). As an aside, Bill Gunn and Duane Jones are at their absolute sexiest in this, as well.
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Taste of Cherry 1997
While I understand the term applied in the physical sense of this movie, to call Taste of Cherry “minimalist” degrades the entire work of art, in my opinion. There is so much going on under the surface here, unspeakable darkness and intense repression - to the magnitude of which I’ve seen portrayed in only a few other films. This took me back to the deepest, most isolated and painful caverns of my mind and my internal emotional life, but I’m…
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Captain Marvel 2019
Okay you know what???? I actually really enjoyed this??????? The politics sucked tho and had a lot of potential to be so much gayer but idk man it worked for me.
