Poor Things. 2023. Yorgos Lanthimos.
There isn’t a dull moment in the monumentally surreal and beautiful sets and on location sites of Poor Things. This film hits the ground running and the laughs never stopped for us. However, the level of serious topics covered such as women’s rights and men’s liberties taken over the years is brilliantly written and well acted. The handmade sets, cast, score, and makeup is ostensibly perfect for the subject matter. Emma Stone takes her acting…
Everything Everywhere All At Once. 2022. Directed by Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Daniels). 🏳️🌈🫶🏳️🌈💖🏳️🌈🫶🏳️🌈🫶💖🏳️🌈🫶
“You tell me that it’s a cruel world… and we are all running around in circles. I know that. I have been on this earth as many days as you.” Waymond Wang.
We just left an IMAX auditorium in a multiplex in which there was a two to five minute standing ovation. It was if we were at a film festival. We were at a special…
The Room Next Door. 2024. Directed by Pedro Almodovar.
Pedro has a fetish for hospitals and pathology. The Room Next Door cleverly adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s “What Are You Going Through” is an exploration of legality of “the right to die” and the nuances that surround this controversial yet important debate. My father struggled with three types of cancer and believed in “the right to die” but family decisions, relocating him etc lead to him dying painfully over a four…
The Brutalist. 2024. Directed by Brady Corbet.
A phenomenal examination of immigration into the United States during war time. In addition, Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold use the aforementioned premise as a device to demonstrate the difficulties of getting films made. In fact, they used seven years trying to get The Brutalist greenlit.
The Vista-Vision cinematography by Lol Crawley was outstanding, effective, and penetrating with regard to telling this original screenplay by Corbet and Fastvold. Crawley turns the protagonist’s world…
Beau Is Afraid. 2023. Directed by Ari Aster.
All Mothers’ Are Not Created Equal.
Beau Is Afraid (2023) is Ari Aster’s blend of cinema that seems to serve as an homage to Synecdoche, New York (2008) written and directed by Charlie Kaufman while showing signs of A Serious Man (2009) written and directed by the Coen Brothers. Joachim Phoenix (Beau Wassermann) is on an epic Homeric journey but more in the Jewish vein. Despite coming from a family of tremendous…
Barbie. 2023. Directed by Greta Gerwig.
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So pink, so existential, and the dance numbers parallel some of the best musicals ever made. Barbie is a marvel made by Marvel. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach made a film that is sooo Barbie and soo Kenough that we laughed, wept, and rejoiced with an LGBTQ audience full of pink. PINK!!!
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