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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime 1968
the addition of a (funny, presaging Resnais’s later playfulness) sci-fi conceit to his densest-to-date subjective, impressionistic slipstream of recollection and return means that this movie, more than Hiroshima or Muriel, is about *time* as much as *memory*. and further: eerie Penderecki score and surprising emphasis on bullshit office work both suggest, in different ways, that its exploration of time is also an exploration of power, of structure imposed on a flow of individual impressions.
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The Card Counter 2021
Gambling as the Western myth of America as the open road and the promise of reinvention—just drive and drive until you’re someone new—vs gambling as the latter-day Western reality of tribal gaming licenses:
“Washa Casino, what kinda name is that?”
“It’s indigenous.”
“Then where’s all the Indian shit?”Where indeed? America’s got debts no honest man can pay. Paul Schrader’s guilt-ridden men in rooms—Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle; semi-reformed druggie John LeTour; Toller; Tell—live monastic existences but keep diaries in which they…
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The Comfort of Strangers 1990
as with all top-tier Schrader, if you told me this movie was directed by a virgin, i would believe you
