has the winning combination of great new york side characters—judy's roommate who never lets her boyfriend get a word in edgewise, a woman eating salad with her hands, a loud drunk in a diner who wants to fight everyone, a guy who is in a hurry but keeps getting dragged into conversation, a milkman who's never not listening to the radio, an eavesdropping lunch counter attendant, the milkman's wife who sees his black eye and goes "what happened to the…
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Belfast, Maine 1999
my love for this wiseman guy grows the more i dig into his stuff, and this one i think is astonishing in its breadth and complexity. it's been a minute since i watched anything that sent me back to my own childhood; i'm not from maine, but western and central new york doesn't look all that different, especially the more rural areas where parts of my extended family live. shots of and inside dimly-lit houses in quasi-disrepair made me think…
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The Kiss of Death 1977
this is just like my thesis film but with a mouth breather named trevor and a bunch of corpses. i love leigh when he's like "hey look at these freaks. maybe they'll kiss each other."
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The Searchers 1956
SIGH okay this isn't a 1.5 star movie for me this go-around, maybe because i have to teach it for the westerns class i TA and the act of coming up with compelling things to talk about with undergrads has made me more interested. i still basically hate it for cosmetic reasons (the comedy is fucking stupid and bad, the day for night still looks awful, the frame narrative in the middle is tedious) and it's still obviously fucked that…
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Past Lives 2023
felt so prepared to fall in love with this film but i couldn't help feeling like everything was a little underdeveloped. in the film we spend time with essentially three characters for 106 minutes, and somehow they all feel sort of surface-level in exploration. it just feels like a lot of this film is people discussing what other people are like without really seeing that exemplified in the film itself. greta lee is excellent, but i just feel like she…
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House of Gucci 2021
i am simply thinking about:
1) al pacino’s entrance in the film is that he is looking at a tabloid photo of adam driver and lady gaga and he says, “whaaaat is thiiIIiissss”
2) a character alive, saying a thing, cut to IMMEDIATELY, that character dead in casket alskdks it made me laugh
3) lady gaga really hamming it up sucking on a spoon she used to stir her coffeeso silly, somehow adam driver is the least unhinged person…
