It was inevitable that one day A24 was gonna feel the sting of box-office underperformance, a real risk when you give tens of millions of dollars to niche projects that otherwise would never see the light of day - projects like Beau is Afraid, a psychotic kaleidoscope of big ideas and little restraint. On the one hand, I'm glad there's a production company out there willing to take a gamble on insane films like this and Men and Everything Everywhere…
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The Graduate 1967
The Graduate is a certified film school classic. It's surprising how acclaimed and iconic it is given how chaotic it's production was, but I guess that goes to show just how "accidental" filmmaking can really be; I can't help but laugh when I read stories about director Mike Nichols begging Paul Simon for more songs for the soundtrack. What a strange art, where rushed schedules and happenstance can produce one of the most influential films of all time. To think…
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The Little Mermaid 1989
I'm here to lay down some respect for the mother of the Disney Renaissance. The Fox and the Hound and The Great Mouse Detective were the first films to take advantage of the company's creative paradigm shift, but The Little Mermaid was the one that replanted the seed that The Black Cauldron dug up; the Dark Age, people call it now. Who could've guessed that a fairy tale princess movie would be what got them back on track?
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005
"Everything is going to be different from now on, isn't it?"
Yep, it sure is. The franchise about the tales of a boy wizard and his friends is leaving adolescence and entering its awkward teen years, where it tries to dip into darkness and despair whist also having to contend with the fact that it has characters with names like Albus Dumbledore and Ron Weasley. The sheer range of emotion present in Goblet of Fire makes it the most tonally…
