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Fair Play 2023
One of the most memorable sequences about gender and the corporate workplace occurs in the underrated comedy “9 to 5” (1980): characters played by Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda fantasize about how they would get rid of their chauvinistic boss.
Tomlin’s character bestows upon the old jerk a fairy-tale demise, in which she dons a Snow White dress and poisons him, while Parton and Fonda’s characters imagine respective cowboy deaths, where he ends up either hog-tied and roasted…
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Crimes of the Future 2022
Saw this in theatres two nights in a row and I think I'm finally ready to *actually* write something about it. In short, Crimes of the Future is perfect from the first shot to the last. Literally. I'm still in awe about just how cohesive the first and final shots are: we begin with a casual acceptance of the world in spoil due to our actions (and our technologies) and we end on the fearful realization that our bodies, without…
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Wolfsburg 2003
Bleak and lonely, it’s easy to see how the themes explored by Petzold in Wolfsburg resurface – honed and refined – in his later, stronger films. His preoccupation with guilt and silence (and their connectivity) is on full display here, as he follows a man trying and failing to quantify his errors. The ending is startling, and will stick with me for quite some time.
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Insomnia 2002
A foggy exploration of crime and justice that is ambivalent about violence but wholly concerned with the conscience and the natural world. We see so many shots of shoes on terrain – running through cold water, jumping on rows of floating logs, climbing up slippery rocks – and the beauty of the surrounding environment, from the glaciers to the waterfalls, is equal parts appealing and a threat: in one pivotal scene on a ferry, as the murderer reveals his motivations…
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Saltburn 2023
I’ve decided to stop lobbing the “why does this exist” complaint at movies and, instead, get directly to the root of my issues, but Saltburn is just so narratively and thematically empty and visually extravagant that I can’t help but feel that this is an exercise of style and nothing more. Everything about and within it rings hollow and bland; the characters, the dialogue, the “twist” (is it one, though?). Even the things that are presumably supposed to illicit squeals…
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La La Land 2016
Yes I did cry ... that finale MAN. I have placed all of my hopes and dreams for the future of cinema in Damien Chazelle's hands and, I'll be honest, I am completely relaxed and at peace. This man understands cinema - he understands art AND music.
Whiplash was my second favourite movie of 2014 (after Nightcrawler) and so I was extremely excited to see La La Land. From the VERY first moment, this film captivates you, drawing you into…
