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Days of Heaven 1978
like Murnau's SUNRISE for the New Hollywood. you don't need to look too hard to see the broad shape of the period melodrama Paramount probably thought they were making. still dumbstruck by how well it hangs together and it's so lean. Malick's taking only what he needs and remains surprisingly generous to his cast. there's not a single false performance here.
it was my introduction to Malick as a teenager watching on a 27 inch tv in the basement and i think it'll always be my favorite.
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The French Dispatch 2021
No crying.
Purely in terms of film form it's far too dense to untangle after one pass. But its asides, diversions, and brief moments of editorial comment are sticking with me most. He may be the most ornate stylist of his generation, but Anderson's admirers know the meaning of his work is often found in simple, relatively unadorned declaration ("I've had a rough year, Dad."). This, his tenth film and first to gesture toward a "late" style, is no different.…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
another movie from Anderson about how and when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable in front of other people.
it was shot right in the thick of COVID with two rookie actors at the center and you don't feel any of that pressure for a second on screen. it's this beautiful, iridescent thing, at once alive with the possibility of youth and leavened by the distance of memory.
