“It’s fitting, really, that just a little under four months after ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ ravaged the global box office and satiated the nostalgic desires of an audience that couldn’t be more slaphappy for a $200 million dollar cluster of cross-generational IPs and only a couple weeks before yet another multiverse-centered MCU movie is set to be churned out, that ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ was released. Here is a film that’s possibly the exact polar opposite of the consumer-ready…
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles 1975
“How could you know? You’re not a woman.”
criterion challenge 2022: 16/52 (directed by chantal akerman)
“…for interruptions there will always be.”
she lives a simple life. she lives to wake up without needing an alarm. she lives for the sakes of others. she lives for the pleasures that she’ll never have to worry about experiencing herself. she lives in conformity with the frame and knows her place in it. she knows what’s true. she knows that desires will get her…
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Frankenstein 2004
“You were alive.”
being a (mostly) faithful adaptation of shelley’s novel, as outstanding as it is, does automatically mean that there are plenty of chunks of this that are mostly meandering, especially with a three hour runtime and this literally being a hallmark channel production. but for a hallmark channel production, this could be a lot worse. the tv movie aesthetic couldn’t be more apparent, but the production quality does frequently shine through and the technical aspects work around it…
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Ponyo 2008
“That was weird.”
lord knows this isn’t the most visually inventive ghibli film, but i think this might be miyazaki’s most formally interesting effort. the cartoonishly expressive style that it embraces and the buttery smooth on ones animation create an effortlessly exhilarating sense of movement—not to sound like an absolute degenerate, but it’s a shame that water and the ocean don’t look this cool in real life or even in any other animated film. i also forgot just how much…
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The Tatami Galaxy 2010
“That was my first contact with Ozu, as well as my worst contact.”
might watch this again so i could actually look at the animation and visuals instead of speed reading the subtitles; slow the fuck down, man
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Christmas Mail 2010
Missghetti
Sprinkle fights
A 2.5 million dollar budget
People tweeting their letters to Santa instead of writing them
Mailmen going on foot to pick up mail
Air guitar on a loaf of bread
Bossy villain guy who for some reason wants a woman who’s improving their business to be kicked out
A “picnic” inside a post office
Need I say more
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