A film that knew it was dead-on-arrival and chose to work with it by performing a feature-length autopsy on itself. It rips into the obsessed fanbase of the original by suggesting that if they took The Blair Witch Project as reality, then their own reality must resemble some pretty strange fiction, and they wouldn't believe their own reality, even if you showed them the proof in the video format that made their belief in the fiction so convincing to them…
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Mirror 1975
We live inside a nonlinear series of memories which we attempt to reconcile with the present, but by the time the memory catches up, the present has become a memory itself.
Hindsight is what allows us to see how significant the history we've lived through really is in the grand scheme of things.
The Mirror is to cinema what James Joyce's Ulysses is to literature. So personal in such specific ways that it becomes universal when approached outside itself. I…
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First Reformed 2017
It's been years since I saw Winter Light, but I'm pretty sure I prefer this to Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece.
A cry from hell about a man of God. Deeply depressing in a way that healed my soul. I have few words for this one.
It's not subtle in it's sociopolitical views, and it should not be. But where it could be didactic, shouting its messages out of the images, it instead works the other way, pulling you inward and inviting…
