One of those movies that you could use to teach just about anything about filmmaking as form and practice (camera placement, movement, point of view, lenses, costume, background casting, needle drops) but also pretty definitively more than the sum of all of Demme ‘s marvellous choices. It’s a landmark in American genre cinema because its luridness complements and informs its realism as well as its melancholy, and that synthesis in turn accesses genuinely unsettling (and unsanitized) ideas about misogyny…
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Dear Evan Hansen 2021
The megalomania of a 27 -year old Broadway star forcing himself into the movie adaptation of his star making role as a teenage dirtbag (baby)- now that’d be a great subject for a satirical musical. Dear Evan Hansen, though, is a deeply earnest musical -- a tear-jerker about damaged people trying to heal -- and frankly, the material and Ben Platt deserve one another. The songs may or may not deserve better, but Pasek and Paul are pros while the…
