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Beyond the Door 1974
Full of annoying noises and baffling odd sequences, Beyond the Door is work of lazy pastiche that mercifully moves fast enough and showcases enough tomfoolery to keep one's lizard brain from that good night. Nobody asked for an italian Rosemary's Baby to be possessed by the unnamed B version of The Exorcist's Pazuzu but hey here we are.
If I can reduce my droll pleasure with an analogy...
Remember when Bela lugosi fights the immobile tentacle by thrashing around in…
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After Yang 2021
Kitschy and statically filmed like an Ozu joint, After Yang goes beyond its script and themes to further underscore a powerful through-line of Asian identity. Kogonada actively utilizes this cinematic language of the Tokyo Storyteur, implementing sparse, wooden dialogue to draw attention away from typical avenues of pathos-laden entertainment; instead, he leans heavily into carefully edited robo-memories, long sequences of denial-laced grief ventures and only one on-the-nose zen koan to make clear when we as the audience should reach the…
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Q: Into the Storm 2021
A sobering work of investigative journalism, Q: Into the Storm breathed some hope into my taste for modern documentaries. Although procedurally quite fair to its subjects, the film can feel a bit of a puff-piece to some incorrigible folks; clearly Mr. Cullen trusts his audiences to form their own opinions about the twisted subject-jesters that love to dance in the dark muck of the DMZ between free speech and words of violent incitement.
Why is the film successful then, in…
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Manhunter 1986
Finally, I have reached the Spheres of Heaven after climbing the hills of Tubi Purgatorio...and the grand, silent voice of God came to me in a sleepless night where I was flipping through Shudder and noticed a movie that simply didn't belong on the platform: Manhunter.
Within 5 minutes of the opening of the film I had fallen in love, and 45 minutes in I decided to start it over with my wife the following morning. Michael Mann creates a…
