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Sucker Punch 2011
if u complain about the hypersexualization of the women in here thats fine but you're never allowed 2 watch anime again
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Secret Defense 1998
such a difficult work to talk about, watch, discuss, and endure more than anything. in many ways this feels like a predictor to some of diaz's more narrative-based work like Batang West Side, and while there's common ground between this and rivette's other previous material this ultimately feels like a different work entirely. in thinking about it, to me it feels almost like a lynch telling of this story. sylvie seems idyllic in her surroundings; successful, comfortable, desired. her past…
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017
sorkin tier dialogue, horrible treatment of race, paced way too fast, yet still it's somehow enjoyable for a decent chunk of it. this type of film is totally lost on me. i wouldn't quite say it's fascist cinema or it's anything more than radically misguided, but that doesn't forgive the aspects that are still pretty offensive. the letter reading scene in the police depo is among the worst of the year. this film has no faith in its audience. i'm tired
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 2016
an essay
It has become such a cliched statement by this point in the modern world to say that great art is often not acknowledged in its own era. While misconceptions about art are frequently endowed upon younger generations by people who have no real contact with it (the pretentious art critic trope comes to mind), this is one that sticks out as at least partially truthful in my mind. Yet despite this unanimous historical fact that we all seem… -
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World 1985
in terms of sheer ambition, breadth, and progressiveness in every possible direction (particularly of course formally, but in other areas as well), Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World is unmatched. it takes all of the most interesting elements of the great structuralist films (which posited what made narrative films have a narrative), synthesizes them with the aesthetic push of mekas, the rhythm of beavers, and the determination of gance. it's about as dense and inscrutable as Histoire(s) du cinema,…
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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World 1985
i have only seen the first half of this but it is already among a shortlist of the greatest films i've ever seen
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Dripping Water 1969
people ask me various forms of "to what level of bullshit do you put up w in avant-garde films" and it ends around here
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