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Babylon
I really enjoyed the storyline and character arcs. It's witty and raucous. I like the start with debauchery and descent into depravity. Reminds me of Casino with the rise and fall of magnates. Characters were well researched and written from historical basis pulling from multiple important figures in early cinema. And as usual, Margot Robbie is spectacularly precise.
I recently discovered Johnny Guitar (1954), starring Sterling Hayden, Joan Crawford, and Mercedes McCambridge, and directed by Nicholas Ray. Cinephiles know it and love it, but the general public has never heard of it.
It features a vicious, deadly rivalry between two Wild West female entrepreneurs, who are in a land dispute. Besides featuring two strong female leads, it is beautifully shot. We often froze the video, just to admire the framing, or the way the ensemble was posed, like a baroque painting.
Ebony & Ivory (2024) may not be for everybody, but I think it deserves better than its IMDB rating. If only for the number of quotable lines that have been adopted by ny friends group. It’s unapologetically absurd, awkward, and odd.
Gentlemen Broncos.
Absolute. Cinema. Sam Rockwell is too good for this world.
The Chumscrubber.
malayalam movies. yup all of them.
Almost heroes
The Rise of Skywalker - it's a big dumb action movie, with some silly plot holes, but I've never understood the degree to which people hate it (or profess to).
I thought it was great fun, and such a return to form after Last Jedi. Yes, some of the lines make your eyes roll ("somehow Palpatine returned," in particular) but for me it recaptured the high energy, almost innocent, tone of the OT and TFA. No horribly out of place modern cynicism, no lightsaber tossing, no "can you hear me now" jokes.
And I thought the scene with Kylo Ren and Han was genuinely excellent, a really satisfying emotional payoff.