10s into the film Greta did that “cate blanchett neck tilt & stare into the camera”… I KNEW right then girlie was going for that oscar!!
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Babylon 2022
Truly a hot mess of a movie trying to capture the kaleidoscopic hyper-saturated burner engine that is Hollywood. There were moments I loved and moments I absolutely did not, but I think it could definitely have used less runtime. Gorgeous in technicals and score as always though.
This might have worked more for me as a era-specific satire, but it seems that (true to form) Chazelle went in with nothing short of awe for what he is trying to show…
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Three Colours: Red 1994
I always think about Ebert writing back in 2003 — a year after his cancer diagnosis — that Kieślowski is a director he’d turn to for consolation if he learned he was dying, or to laugh with on finding out he would live after all.
The three colours trilogy, for me, is a visual education in humanist(?) ideals and red serves as a climactic conclusion… of sorts. It’s the best standalone piece of the three, without a doubt. It’s Kieślowski‘s lens through which he…
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Three Colours: White 1994
Fun interlude, really enjoyed the comedic elements — a breather was needed
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Three Colours: Blue 1993
Can’t help but feel that my interpretation of blue is bleaker than what kieślowski intended lmao…or maybe not? guy’s a self-claimed pessimist(?). I do find this sits better when considered as the starting point of the trilogy, a progression that ends in (evolves into!) red — but less on its own. Anyhow, Juliette Binoche is a vision.
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
those red AJ1s look so slick and in line with the spiderman fit tom hollandaise needs to have it in his contract to wear it in every marvel movie about him from now on