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Gaslight 1944

★★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025 1

I feel like it's a mistake to fault the lack of Hitchcockian suspense here. Hitchcock takes you to some very dangerous psychological territory, but always hugs you tight, guides you along the way, and provides you with an extraordinary feeling of comfort and reassurance. The fear may be extreme, but it is organized. Here we see Ingrid Bergman from the outside, being driven mad in a kind of messy way, scattered and full of loose ends. The narrative beats of…
The Brutalist 2024

★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025 3

someone who entered showbusiness at age eleven knows only showbusiness no matter how much WG Sebald they’ve read since then. they can use showbusiness as a metaphor for something in the world, or they can use something in the world as a metaphor for showbusiness, but they can never really break free of showbusiness to write about the world proper. in Vox Lux, Brady Corbet did the former, using a pop star to tell a story of general world decline,…

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Nosferatu 2024

★ Watched 26 Dec 2024 4

he must be a very likable man to keep getting to make these very bad movies. it's hard to shake the overall feeling of stupidity. has he learned anything at all about life or death or how people talk and feel since he saw the Murnau at 8 years old? his dialogue has always been bad, from the very beginning, since the Witch, an idiot pastiche full of "thee" and "thou" and "by first crow of cock" (did he think…
Here 2024

Watched 31 Oct 2024 4

fitting to have seen this -- the most horrifying movie ever made -- on halloween. zemeckis is stupid like a mirror. he reflects without knowing. in the polished surface of his stupidity he shows us the death of everything, and thinks it's good natured heartwarming fun.
"here" is a vision of a totally stagnant world. the gimmick is not merely that the camera position doesn't change -- it's that nothing in this world moves. nothing has a heartbeat. photography is…

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