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Stop Making Sense 1984
You know those lightning-in-a-bottle moments that happen every so often when you're watching a film? The feeling that you've witnessed something so rare, so special, that it takes you to a transcendental plane of consciousness? Well, Stop Making Sense is that, non-stop for 88 minutes, and stays that way every time I watch it.
I guess my favourite band is The Beatles (boring, I know), but Talking Heads is the answer I'm more likely to give if you ask me…
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Elvis 2022
Cursed carnival ride madness. The mythic tragedy of America and popular culture as a cycle of exploitation that burns itself out, washed up and exhausted, hollowed out and dry. It's the frustrating bloat (and, to a lesser extent, the standard biopic trappings) that stop this from being the great work that Baz inches towards, but for me the vision here is exciting enough to make up for some of the more middling execution. I don't know how much I can…
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The Pink Panther 2006
Detective double feature with season 4, episode 5 of Columbo, "Playback" (co-starring Gena Rowlands).
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Space Jam: A New Legacy 2021
The World is Hell: Hopeless Cinema
[more to come...writing something large-ish but I'm feeling worse the longer I think about this and need to go to bed]
Update: More thoughts addedI have spent several hours now performing an exorcism on myself and I still only feel marginally better than I did when the lights came on and I emerged from the interminable hellscape that is this fucking movie. It is a million times more apocalyptically bleak than you could…
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020
Please get over yourself.
My feelings may change, and it's been a hot minute since I've seen any Kaufman so I may be in a weird place with him, but a lot of this was insufferable and crushingly disappointing. Synecdoche, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine are three films I adore, and here I just feel none of the humanity or creativity that makes those films so special. Sure, there's discomfort and moments of deeply upsetting psychological horror - as a cinematic…
