I'm trying to go to the movies more. I'm lucky there's a number of independent theatres in my city. I'm going to try to write a brief review for each one that I've seen so far.
Early this month I had the chance to see The Last Showgirl. I found this movie to be a thoughtful and very sweet character portrait. It was beautifully shot, and I still find myself thinking about Shelly walking around the showgirl icons, like Collosus' of Rhodes, on the strip and what her internal processes must have been knowing that her show was ending, and likely feeling very small, but slowly more and more free. Would recommend, really lovely conversations on what it means to be an artist.
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This January I saw A Complete Unknown and the Brutalist.
A Complete Unknown was often funny. I frequently found myself asking if the director pulled Timothee aside and told him to "really embody bob, just try to be bob", and at that point he would just throw the pitched accent as hard as he possibly could. I think that part that killed me the most was when Bob was passing by a drunken Johnny Cash who has just poorly parked (crashed) his car in front of a motel. There where points where he was nearly muppetlike. Most of the other actors held it together tho. Long movie.
The Brutalist on the other hand was quite serious. I found the sweeping long shots to be very visually stunning. Apart from that I did find the story kind of weak. I think it would have been much more interesting to conver the dissolution of Bauhaus under the n**i regime and Lazlo's experience of this, as opposed to just the coveting and achievement of the american dream and a z*****t outcome. Intermission was cool.
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