Listen, I know I'm a sucker for Cimino and Jeff Bridges... but THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT is a great film. Now available in the '70's Cars' collection at Criterion Channel, this Cimino directorial debut stars Eastwood as an 'retired' heist man brought back into the job by ex-associates and a chance encounter with a gas-pedal heavy kid named Lightfoot. Really beautifully filmed across the mountainous corners of Montana, this is a 70s picture that moves, leans on character, and correctly leaves…
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After Yang 2021
Yeah, I knew I would really love AFTER YANG. A soft and careful treatise on identity, grief, and memory. Such gentle touches in the language of cinema that doesn't ask too much, but just a little. It's the perfect kind of SciFi film that grounds all the science and tech into an assimilation with the humanity of the subjects and the viewer -- such that nothing feels false or contrived.
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Merrily We Go to Hell 1932
Incredible ending to a film that pushes and pulls you in joy and anxiety. I simply do not know how to compartmentalize this film. Unlike anything else.
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