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Skinamarink 2022
Wow. What a genuinely inventive moment of filmmaking.
Oh. He’s gonna repeat it 10 more times huh?
For better or worse, the most debut feature ever. -
Never on Sunday 1960
A quintessentially Marxist but still playful exploration of sex work, the American fetishization of ancient Greece/condescension towards contemporary Greece, and the arrogance of Western-centric intellectuals, Never on Sunday manages to handle its thematic heft while still being sexy, playful, musical, and boast a stunning Melina Mercouri performance.
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Oppenheimer 2023
My worst fear about Oppenheimer was that it would be some kind of brooding hagiography for capital B Brilliant Men, in the vein of Dunkirk or The Dark Knight trilogy. Instead, Nolan has delivered perhaps his most mature, electric, complex and harrowing work yet. In many of his films he uses a byzantine (let’s be honest: sometimes pointlessly confusing) structure to interrogate one central question. Here the structure is through two McCarthy era hearings: one for Oppenheimer himself and one…
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Oppenheimer 2023
There’s such a stark difference between the beginning of the movie - where Oppenheimer is reading Eliot, studying Picasso’s cubist period, learning the new physics, in agape wonder at the possibilities of this abstract, post-Einstein 20th century, “hearing the music” as illustrated by cross-cutting with these atomic abstractions & Göransson’s score which seems to rotate around the listener’s mind like an accelerating electron - and the beginning of the third act. Here, his momentous achievement is solidified in history - the…
