BOGDANOVICH DON’T MISS BABY
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Five Easy Pieces 1970
It’s ineffable how much of a giant Nicholson is in this while still managing to engage in the truest amount of Bobby’s own vulnerability. He’ll never be topped here - that father/son scene will always destroy me.
Masterpiece. Rest easy Bob.
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 2021
Recently signed on to direct a sequel: Marcel to Hell With Shoes On.
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Elvis 2022
I have a great deal of respect for someone so unapologetic about their directorial habits and I guess that would normally be an interesting sentiment to display with someone as flamboyant as the king. I don’t think the marriage is as seemless as he believes it to be, but this shit cuts through 20 years of costume changes and Austin Butler thirst-traps like a fucking knife - based Luhrmann.
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978
The balls that Antonio Monda has to screen this 187 minute Italian gem to Tisch kids on a Thursday night. Absolute legend.
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Don't Look Up 2021
McKay’s constant obsession with satirizing the current political climate as this giant farce only takes him so far. I have absolutely no clue what kind of direction he’s striving for or even had in mind other than attempting to feed his own agenda. So many meandering tonal shifts that only ever equate to this epitomized version of “I don’t give a shit, but I actually do.” A mess.
also yikes to whoever was pulling focus for this movie.
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Licorice Pizza 2021
I’m entitled to be annoying about something at least once a year and this is it.
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