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A story about how 3 completely different groups of people's lives intersect at a car crash.
3 stories, one movie, all bound together by thwarted love and dogs.
Surprisingly good, although my reviews lend nothing to the praise it's received. Worthwhile.
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A melancholy tale of ennui of immortality, a couple of sensitive vampires - Tilda Swinton (Eve), Tom Hiddleston (Adam) - reunite in Detroit after centuries of being apart, then events transpire that require their relocation back to Tangiers where they meet up once again with Christopher Marlowe (played by William Hurt) - himself a vampire that somehow faked his own death and lived into the present...
Moody, atmospheric, stylish, and while I enjoyed this, this - like most Vampire films, would appeal more to gothic and disaffected adolescents. Jarmusch has a certain inimitable style, and - rather than quick pacing relies on slow, beautiful shots to establish our sympathies.
I appreciated this, but didn't need to see it particularly...
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Sometimes I wonder how I end up watching these films.
This, the story of a disaffected schoolteacher who takes his summer leave from Tiboonda to go fly to Sydney and visit his girlfriend. Only to get there he must first go through Bundanyabba - referred to affectionately by the locals as "The Yabba" - and here things go sideways. People perpetually buying him beers, a constable introduces him to the "underground nightlife" - people betting on a coin flip, his winning of a fortune and then losing it, falling in with considerable alcoholics who take him under their wing, buying him drinks, beers, keeping him loaded while they get up to all sorts of vicious misadventures, a day and nighttime Kangaroo hunt, real footage, real kangaroos being serially slaughtered, a nightmare of drunken hospitality that never ends, more drinks, fights, and it continues, pulling you down with it.
The outback, Tiboonda, it looks to be hell. The hopelessness, poverty, despair, the glaring heat and sun, the lack of shade. And the turning on it's head of what at first glance appears to be hospitality, the drinking and macho culture, there's a lot going on.
An excellent movie, but an uncomfortable watch.
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I had no desire to see this when it first came out, but having seen a few clips of it on my Facebook Feed I thought I'd give it a try.
Surprisingly it was pretty good. Christian Bale does a bang-up job, wearing his little plastic raincoat, doing his little dance, monologue on “Huey Lewis and the News”, (He can't be serious?..I think he was...), the conflicts with other brokers, the ending - wherein he melts down, attempts a confession, only to get a cold rebuttal from his lawyer - the message - that we, of the "brokerage class", can do what we like...
From Christian Bale a Tour de Force performance.
Somehow a pretty prescient movie, and - if we were there in 2000 just look how far we've come since...
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2 Movies that I'm very much looking forward to.
The First - "MUSK" - the unapproved documentary by Bleeker Street.
It looks to be very good. And while I'm loathe to watch a documentary about someone I despise I think this might just give me more reason.
If the trailer doesn't load above, use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8SyndC10
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And the next one is "You Can See Everything", which is a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, whom, as you'll recall, is the disgraced CEO of tech-startup Theranos. And - to make it extra interesting Elizabeth Holmes invited Nathan Fielder into her house to make it!
Now - Nathan Fielder - I mean, remember him from "The Rehearsal" and other works or just read his bio, the man's a genius - and looking at the reviews of this - looking at Elizabeth Holmes through his eyes, well, this will be something...
Again, if the trailer doesn't load above, use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_N5p1q44