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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019
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Q: How should I light a movie?

A: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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Q: How should I use music in a movie?

A: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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Q: How should I create that indefinable, unknowable, ethereal qualityβ€”that diffuse, elemental, transcendent essenceβ€”that breathes life itself into a movie and endears you to it, fusing the intangible and the corporeal as one?

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Last Year at Marienbad

Last Year at Marienbad

1961
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I write reviews for my future self, knowing that what I recall or feel about a film will fade away or become twisted with time. Even with a written record, those experiences congeal neither perfectly nor permanently. Middle age has only exacerbated this sad fact. I'd reckon Alain Resnais knows a thing or two about that. I see his Last Year at Marienbad as an exploration of memory. His tackling of the subject is awash in repetition, fragmentation, and opaqueness,…

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Operation Avalanche

Operation Avalanche

2016
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 Part of my 10th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2024-25.
 Week 9: Found Footage

As any found footage flick should, Operation Avalanche at least justifies its existence by clearing the most rudimentary of bars: invoking voyeuristic unease. The sensation of feeling like you're watching something you shouldn't or witnessing something accidentally captured is a crucial component of the technique. If you're not eliciting an apprehensive response from your audience, you've done something wrong. Happily, Operation Avalanche has more going for it…

Fantastic Planet

Fantastic Planet

1973
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 Part of my 10th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2024-25.
 Week 8: Alien Encounters

 Eliminated from my List of Shame!

The mind boggles at the imaginative whimsies that develop across Fantastic Planet's very psychedelic, very '70s, and very French 72-minute runtime. However, though happy to bask in the visuals, the mind wishes that the allegorical backbone and its attendant plot lines had been more robust, brought more to the fore, and endowed with a greater sense of the eccentric. Just think what could result if a Yorgos Lanthimos script fell into the Fantastic Planet vat of trippy visuals and bizzaro style. That'd be one wild concoction.

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The Stunt Man

The Stunt Man

1980
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 Part of my Birth Year Challenge.

This thing is all over the place. You've got slapstick, action, big acting, small, intimate scenes, and romance, and none of it seems to mix comfortably with any of the rest of it. Also, they kept calling the stunt car (clearly badged a Mercedes-Benz), a Duesenbergβ€”unforgivable. Although, truthfully, the car is neither.

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

1961
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 Part of my Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2020-21.
 Week 3: Classic Performers: Sidney Poitier

Well, that was quite the rollercoaster ride! A Raisin in the Sun firmly belongs in that fascinating stage-to-screen genre. The adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's play is noteworthy for the fact that Hansberry was a black woman whose protagonists comprise a black family. Her characters embody real, complex flesh-and-blood people of color of the sort Hollywood had rarely ever portrayed. There are no stereotypes or stock depictions on…

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