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The Northman 2022
everything in this is pointedly engineered to leave as much of a jet-black and mucus flavored aftertaste in your mouth as possible.
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Euphoria: Trouble Don't Last Always 2020
review is for the entire show:
hmm
unpacking my feelings about this. let's see.
"reviewing" "content" is at its core a vehicle to socially signal traits about yourself. i write things on letterboxd and assign things star ratings to signal aspects about me to you. if you like the vibe you get, you like my reviews, "follow" me, and long-term i either get the validation of knowing that someone thinks that my personality is worthy of valuing and attention, or…
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Everybody Knows 2018
everybody repressing labyrinthine and destabilizing rationalization hamster wheels in overexposed images with no depth and almost complete airtight insularity is actually a pretty good representation of contemporary first world life.
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The Green Knight 2021
this seemed good, but lowery comes from the nolan school of sound mixing, and the theater i watched this in had terrible speakers. which means i understood a third of the dialogue at best. the fact that this left a generally positive impression despite this is probably a good sign.
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The Searchers 1956
in an era of sickly and cowardly "reclamations of the myth", there is something essential, vital even, about a historic work that presents it in brutal and bloody totality.
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Wild Grass 2009
"after the cinema, nothing surprises you. anything can happen. it doesn't surprise you. anything can happen as naturally as possible."
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Providence 1977
third person getting subsumed into first person getting subsumed into second person. the only people in the room are me and you.
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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime 1968
appropriating the prismatic nature of reality to shape, define, control our lives, but finding that causation always lies just outside our grasp. she's never coming back and that's okay. endings are only a product of our inability to sensorially perceive space-time. the past is present is eternal. it will never be seen again but it will always be.