Realized I never logged my favorite film of all time. Here’s what I wrote about it 2017:

The questions asked of us by Olivier Assayas in his second collaboration with Kristen Stewart swirl around the film like one of its spirits, haunting you and pulling at you. And like a spirit, the answers are often times easy to miss and if you do find them, they're inevitably hard to grapple with. Assayas weaves a brilliantly intricate tale of love, loss,…

Adored this. My favorite kind of messily indulgent and vulnerable filmmaking. It’s so audaciously open, wrestling with the dissolution of a marriage while embracing and dissecting every shitty conjecture made about her by the press. No wonder it was panned.

“I noticed the hole.”

The hole in the wall acting as portal to the marriage’s past joys, failed hopes & everything in between is brilliant. Jolie turns our voyeurism of her & her marriage into a cathartic bit of foreplay, slowly bringing…

“This is always the biggest thing amongst Indigenous people. The tale that the white man will come to save us. You go anywhere in the world, any Indigenous culture will say, ‘One day a messiah will come, and he’s a white man.’ What I really wanted to do with the very first image was dispel the myth that they’ll come to save us. From what? We’re already emancipated in our own cultures. Why do we need this white man? But…

I’ve been dying to tell literally anyone about this movie for a fucking month. Boyle is one of my all time guys but Jesus, I haven’t been this taken aback by one of his for quite some time. Swerves in the ways that matter becoming a shockingly, profoundly moving (and funny!) treatise on the acceptance of death and learning to move forward, not just through the grief of a loved one but through what you thought your nation might’ve been…

An extremely, shockingly dull and expository first hour that had me sitting there going “are they fucking BLOWING it??” leads to maybe the finest extended set-piece they’ve ever done and from there I was locked in. I like how weird and unwieldy these last two are, lots of threads that if you pull on enough you’re like “what?!” and I definitely got a lot of that here but you can really start to see the seams. Cruise heads are gonna…