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Nickel Boys 2024
fascinating to align the film’s thematic concerns (transference and identification) with the literalism of the POV shot, and bold to commit to it so thoroughly (and to slightly depart from it in ways that are, probably, intended to be big hints). but i tend to think, politically, the reconstruction of collective memory and the realm of sociality are much more radical gestures for cinema these days, rather than the kind of ultra-subjectivity going on here. but it’s interesting that all…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
first, this one is a little oranger—at least in the first scene, before it reverts to the dishwater monochrome of Dune Part One Part One—and is therefore better. it also helps that it covers the part of the book that Lynch’s version drastically excises. this frees Villeneuve up to be a little looser in places rather than just cribbing from and amping up the earlier film.
it’s important to recognize, though, that spreading this over two movies is as much…
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