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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate 1923

★★★★½ Rewatched by Neil Bahadur 19 May 2022

Every time I see this, my mind is a little blown at the sophistication and economy of Chaplin's direction. The melodramatic opening is a little much, but otherwise this is a little masterclass in storytelling almost entirely via behaviour and implication.
A Clockwork Orange 1971

★★★ Rewatched by Neil Bahadur 15 May 2022 2

Far less ambiguous than I'd taken this to be beforehand, this time rather playing almost as empty provocation - and at worst, utterly nihilist. However, even with the perhaps unnecessarily graphic depiction of Alex's own crimes, this thing (which now to me looks like Kubrick's weakest post-1962 feature) still stays interesting in Alex's own symptomatic reflection of total desensitization via his own voracious consumption of spectacle and violent media: conditioned to chase thrills, one naturally begins to do so themselves…

There Will Be Blood 2007

★★ Rewatched by Neil Bahadur 14 Jan 2008 19

Pointless film, but Daniel Day-Lewis gives an astonishing performance as Waluigi
Good Time 2017

★★★½ Rewatched by Neil Bahadur 10 Sep 2017 21

"I got beat up. I'm the victim here."
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"Cross the room if you've ever been blamed for something you didn't do."
Many months before the films North American release, I joked that Good Time looked like "a modern-day Phil Karlson picture" so I was doubly pleasantly surprised when I found that this film approximated that feeling. In his annual love-letter to Cannes, Mark Peranson called the film "a kind of Dionysian New York Gesamtkunstwerk....immersion without identification." Where Good Time…