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Post by Reba on Apr 3, 2019 8:43:08 GMT -5
wow well check out blue collar, hardcore, american gigolo, mishima, patty hearst, light sleeper... i think he's a way underrated director. i've also just watched "dog eat dog" which is absolutely mental starring nic cage and willem dafoe, and pretty much the polar opposite of first reformed
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 15, 2019 21:19:18 GMT -5
I've added some 2018 flicks I've seen (semi-)recently:
High Life, by Claire Denis - Pattinson's performance is quite fascinating to watch, but beyond that the film is an underwritten mess. Tons of loose ends, things that are introduced or happen without any purpose to any story, incl. a kind of hard-to-watch brutal scene that doesn't contribute anything but bleakness without having to say anything about it. And then it ends in an out-of-the-blue saccharine, unsatisfyingly open-ended cliché.
The Sisters Brothers - Great Western film with top-notch acting and characters. Based on a novel by Patrick DeWitt that Daniel Handler highly recommended, btw.
Ray & Liz, by Richard Billingham - Kind of a Beckettian (Idk why, but it feels like that) portrait of a financially struggling Birmingham family and the alcoholism of the parents. Beautifully shot (the director is a photographer), based on the writer-director's own parents... pretty bleak, though (I still liked it).
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