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Sept project: working through Ang Lee's filmography in order
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Ride with the Devil 1999
I'm always fascinated for a 'foreigner' to take on another country's intimate stories; sometimes they make no sense, sometimes they make more.
Also interesting to see Lee's working with some people from The Ice Storm - Maguire, Avy, his DP Frederick Elmes who will also shoot Chosen and Hulk.
Ebert almost never misses, and here nails the core - www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ride-with-the-devil-1999 - "a Civil War film made without the benefit of hindsight," which intentionally keeps the point of view as narrow…
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A Haunting in Venice 2023
Imagine if Sparkling Cyanide (1983) or Murder By Death had a bigger budget or better script (respectively), with as stacked a cast and the advantage of knowing themselves as adaptations from 50 years past?
A film which establishes its language hard (the first cross-dissolve and match-cut had me gasping) and early (all the canted angles and hi/lo shot-reverse-shots are well and truly in their rhythms before the mystery actually gets underway), and never lets up, then (most importantly) gets in…
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Glass Onion 2022
200 Million to have Janelle Monáe put on a number of wigs and accents and outrageously stunning outfits and *Yzma voice* SMASH THINGS WITH A HAMMER?
Money well fucking spent.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel 1982
The fashion.
The double crossing.
The chemistry between Seymour and Andrews.
The chemistry between Andrews and McKellen.
The swashbuckling.
The romance.
The drama.
The shade!
