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You Could Have Seen The Mona Lisa 2021
I have never seen the Mona Lisa.
A few months ago, we took my daughter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She had grown fond of a Gerald and Piggy "art-tivity" book, which had a large number of games and activities centered around famous paintings of the world, and included was an index that detailed the paintings referenced and where to see them. She saw that several were at the Met, so I asked her if she would like to…
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Shatter Dead 1994
One thing I've learned about myself while immersed in the world of SOV is that I no longer really give a tin shit whether or not something is narratively coherent or how formally impressive it is or isn't if, at bottom, it makes emotional sense to me. Shatter Dead is better made than most at this level because Scooter McCrae is a thoughtful dude with a number of strong ideas and a visual sense that finds striking images whenever he…
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The Virgin Suicides 1999
Hoped to get more out of it this time around, but it still strikes me as hermetic in unproductive ways, depicting its central sisters not as characters but as fleshy metaphor. The Trip Fontaine segment is easily the best part of the film, mainly because nobody used Josh Hartnett better than this in this stage of his career. (It's also a nice touch that of course Trip would grow up to be the kind of person late-'90s Michael Paré would play.)
