7.five Another Korean short worth a watch. However, I don't like it as much as many others do. It truly is good film-making, nevertheless the story just isn't really entertaining enough to make me fall for it as hard as many appear to have done.
“Deep Cover” is many things at once, including a quasi-male love story between Russell and David, a heated denunciation of capitalism and American imperialism, and ultimately a bitter critique of policing’s impact on Black cops once Russell begins resorting to murderous underworld techniques. At its core, however, Duke’s exquisitely neon-lit film — a hard-boiled style picture that’s carried by a banging hip-hop soundtrack, sees criminality in both the shadows as well as the sun, and keeps its unerring gaze focused about the intersection between noir and Blackness — is about the duality of identity more than anything else.
This clever and hilarious coming of age film stars Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as two teenage best friends who commit to go to 1 last party now that high school is over. Dever's character has one of several realest young lesbian stories you will see in a movie.
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The awe-inspiring experimental film “From the East” is by and large an physical exercise in cinematic landscape painting, unfolding for a number of long takes documenting vistas across the former Soviet Union. “While there’s still time, I would like to make a grand journey across Eastern Europe,” Akerman once said of your commitment behind the film.
Side-eyed for years before the film’s beguiling power began to more fully reveal itself (Kubrick’s swansong proving for being every inch as mysterious and rich with meaning as “The Shining” or “2001: A Space Odyssey”), “Eyes Wide Shut” is really a clenched sleepwalk through a swirl of overlapping dreamstates.
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Allegiances within this unorthodox marital arrangement change and break with all of the palace intrigue of power seized, vengeance sought, and virtually not one person being who they first appear to be.
Gus Van Sant’s gloriously unhappy road movie borrows from the worlds of writer John Rechy and even the director’s possess “Mala Noche” in sketching the humanity behind trick-turning, closeted street hustlers who share an ineffable spark inside the darkness. The film underscored the already evident talents of its two leads, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, while also giving us all many a cause to swoon over their faketaxi indie heartthrob status.
Despite criticism for its fictionalized account of Wegener’s story plus the casting of cisgender actor Eddie Redmayne in the title role, the film was a group-pleaser that performed well in the box office.
Possibly it’s fitting that a road movie alohatube — the ultimate road movie — exists in so many different iterations, each longer than the next, spliced together from other iterations that together produce a perception of the grand cohesive whole. There is beauty in its meandering quality, its target not on the sort of conclude-of-the-world plotting that would have Gerard Butler foaming at the mouth, but about the convenience of friends, lovers, family, acquaintances, and strangers just hanging out. —ES
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