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  • Carol
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  • Workers, Peasants

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu 2024

    ★ Rewatched 04 Jan 2025 3

    We wound up with a cinema of time, where nothing exists except for the pure duration of successive acts without density or reality: the birth of the dangerous, and entirely gratuitous, notion of rhythm and speed—trying to throw us off track by replacing existence and presence by accumulation, hoping to create a prey from the frenzied multiplication of fleeing shadows...We’re suffering from suffocation, from rhetorical intoxication.

    - Jacques Rivette

    A film that only seems to understand meaningless accumulation, deforming itself…

  • Workers, Peasants

    Workers, Peasants 2001

    ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2025 3

    Opens with one of those classic Straub-Huillet panning shots, by now a clear indication that something is to be conjured from and confronted with in the empty landscape, a preview for what the words and actors will make explicit. And they bring a similar shot back at the very end, turning bookend into reminder, telling us that it is impossible to think of these desolate hills as separate from people, separate from history.

    Everything in between unfolds as a double…

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  • Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness 2024

    ½ Watched 23 Jun 2024 3

    I hate how Lanthimos edits his movies, I hate where he places his camera, I hate how he moves his camera, I hate how he directs his actors, I hate how he uses his score, I hate his sense of humor, I hate his use of dissolves, his use of black-and-white, I hate every single decision he makes. Provocation for prudes, mannered garbage posing as weirdness. Truly worthless.

    Seen at AMC Lincoln Square 13 in New York City

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu 2024

    ★ Watched 26 Dec 2024 5

    A hideous bore. A passion project with no vision. On a scene-to-scene, shot-to-shot basis, it seems to have no idea what it wants to be. For all his virtuosic camera movement, Robert Eggers somehow manages to land on the same exact composition every single time. This a dusty toy box, not a film, a withering object protected from the sunlight of a person capable of thinking. I miss Anya Taylor-Joy.

    Seen at AMC Empire 25 in New York City

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