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New York Film Festival #9
i wanted to sit on this one a bit longer before letting my thoughts out but i also want to get them out immediately.
it’s tough to critique a film that touches on someone’s grief cause everyone grieves differently, but this was an insulting piece of shit in every way imaginable. cronenberg answers the age old question “what if tesla and apple collaborated for a 2 hour commercial about a man grieving his wife’s death,…
New York Film Festival #7
before the movie started the director came out and said a few words. he ended with “if, with a cast like that, we got a film wrong, then we are truly stupid” and i find that really funny because they got just about everything wrong. one of the most obnoxiously on the nose / holding-your-hand films i’ve seen in a long time. a film highlighting violence and identity but dumbing them down to elementary levels…
New York Film Festival #2
first person pov is not my preferred viewing experience in film. was so distracted by the stylistic decision that i forgot there was a narrative worth investing in. heavy subject matter that ultimately felt weightless because the first person pov didn’t allow our actors to interact with one another organically.
One of the more emotionally impactful and hard-hitting courtroom dramas I’ve seen in quite some time. Sandra Hüller was an absolute force and probably conveyed a range of emotion better than any lead actress has all year. Excluding Oppenheimer (because I don’t necessarily see it as a “traditional” courtroom drama), not since The Trial of the Chicago 7 has a courtroom drama engrossed me the way Anatomy of A Fall did. An in-depth and overly personal dissection of emotion, marriage,…
Not that we don’t already, but we need to hold Richard Linklater’s name in the highest esteem. His expanding filmography is nothing short of spectacular. He has this raw talent and an eye for the empathetic and personal that breeds this involuntary addictive response to his projects, making his films so desirable and so easily lovable
I have so many thoughts rummaging through my head right now... borderline assaulting me. My downfall on Letterboxd is writing reviews almost immediately after…