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The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
a delicacy, a pastel delight, a perfect slice of wes anderson. a charming storybook that’s occasionally invaded by the barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. my favorite comedy by far.
“to be frank, i think his world had vanished long before he ever entered it. but i will say, he certainly sustained the illusion with a marvelous grace.”
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984
In many ways, this is a Princess Mononoke lite, but Miyazaki’s talent for astonishing world-building is on full display. Even though Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind loses its dramatic weight to clunky pacing, its expansive mythos and post-apocalyptic political drama are awe-inspiring. It’s rare to see this studio so brutal—images of violent (almost nuclear) imperialism and environmental failure depict corruption wasting away at our forests and valleys—but at its core, it’s compassionate and pure to a nearly melodramatic…
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Dunkirk 2017
[70mm]
Reduced to ants from a bird’s eye view. There’s a sense of participation watching Dunkirk—other films thrive in voyeurism but Nolan values immersion and experience. The moment Zimmer’s score starts ticking off your time, you’re stuck on the beaches and on the boats with these soldiers as they’re barraged and bombed; you can only scramble to survive.
This is Nolan stripped down to visceral sound and image. Every time a ship capsizes, I feel as though I’m gonna drown.…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
I kid you not, this is the next great movie of this generation.
"Evelyn, I'm not your husband. I'm another version of him from another universe. I'm here because we need your help."
Fervently original and unapologetically weird, the filmmaking duo aptly named 'Daniels' have made a creative masterwork only possible because they probably picked out every single emotion from the multiverse and piled them into a controlled, incoherent, cohesive, chaotic, singular movie. It had me sweating from laughter, almost…
