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House of Gucci 2021
A total riot!
Gaga slays as Jordan(a) Belfort. I can never have enough Driver. Pacino might easily have been dubbed by Rob Brydon, doing his impression in The Trip. But, Leto? Absolute MVP.
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Silence 2016
In Schrader's writing on transcendental style in film, he says of Ozu/Dreyer/Bresson that their work is linked through a common dramatic language, which expresses a spiritual state. They achieve this, he posits, through austere camerawork, acting devoid of self-consciousness, and through editing that avoids editorial comment. For me, SILENCE is transcendental cinema -- which reaches an almost spiritual realm in its depiction of faith, torture and apostasy -- but it doesn't fit Schrader's definition of transcendental style in film; instead…
