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Dune 2021

★★★½ Watched 30 Oct 2021 1

CHANI, IN VOICEOVER: Arrakis, my planet, is forged in sand but also blood. The spice, a sacramental rite of my persevering clan, is pillaged by a remorseless empire and its jealous Padishah Emperor. The land and its people ravaged by the blood-thirsty Harkonnen, they look towards a fabled voice from the outer world who will lead them to paradise.
CUT TO:
PAUL ATREIDES, SPOTTING DUNCAN IDAHO: Duuude, what’s up?
Days 2020

Watched 22 Oct 2020 2

When a filmmaker holds on each shot for so long that the entirety of the film forever burrows its way deep into your consciousness... that’s a Tsai-op.

Ratatouille 2007

★★★★★ Watched 06 May 2023

How did they ever make a movie of Ratatouille?
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 2002

★★★★½ Rewatched 03 May 2023 1

A big, bright ray of sunshine.

TÁR 2022

★★★★½ Watched 31 Oct 2022 25

JUILLIARD STUDENT: I never played The Last of Us. I’d rather spend my free time—and my money—supporting work places that foster fair labor practices.
LYDIA TÁR: Oh, yes, I suppose we should sacrifice the mechanical ambitions of Jak X: Combat Racing and the technical prowess of A Thief’s End to the ever-evolving, reckless defenestrations of contemporary culture’s most regressive whims. Great art—like Cortex Strikes Back, or Keef the Thief—requires dedication, young man. Would you want your nascent work to be defined by how…
The Fabelmans 2022

★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Dec 2022 2

On this watch, I began to notice a number of interesting parallels between the adventures of young Sammy Fabelman and many of the known details about the youth of filmmaker Steven Spielberg.