ExpKind I love The House That Jack Built personally. It's so self-indulgent, but I love its prodding into the nature of art's moral imperative. Does art have intrinsic moral value? Does it have a moral responsibility? As someone who had to belabor those questions constantly in art school, I found his frankness about it refreshing. I also find it to be one of his funnier films, and I think he shines best when he lets himself be funny and not overly serious or dour.
MOVIE THREADS
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Poor Things and Everything Everywhere All at Once were 2 great ones of recent years, I just watched.
Also, of other recent ones, Tár, Babylon and Pig were really good.
Finally got to see the Kaoru Abe/Izumu Suzuki biopic 'Endless Waltz' the other day, after years of trying to track it down on the web (turns out it's been on rarelust this whole time). Needless to say I loved it, as I've loved every Wakamatsu (the director) flick I've seen lately. Great little Keiji Haino/Fushitsusha cameo too.
I liked A Different Man. Stylistically it's great. Great soundtrack. The story is a little bit obvious. It's a spin on the Beauty and the Beast concept. Adam Pearson delivers a great performance.
Big fan of the movie BRICK love the music to it and a movie that can keep my interests whenever I watch it.
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I saw "Hard Truths" in the theater today. Mike Leigh is definitely the king of miserists. The misery was so unrelenting there was even a 20% walkout(only five people in the theater).
Drumstruck (1991). A short film about a glitchy rock n roll drummer in trashland. It was usually paired with Tetsuo: The Iron Man on vhs.
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Tetsuo's where I first saw it. Dug it then and dig it now
I really dug The Brutalist. Intense flick.
Anora is Best Picture. It’s fantastic.
That really long movie in the running? Junk.
All other contenders might be good, at best.
I just watched Der Fan finally and it blew my fricken mind! The main girl is a real vibe. Also watched THE ALLINS on youtube for fun, their mom seems very sweet.
Hundreds of Beavers (2024). This movie was certainly refreshing! It’s a wild black-and-white slapstick indy film, channeling Buster Keaton with non-stop, Rube Goldberg-style chaos. A drunken trapper battles crafty beavers in a relentless chain of gags, tricks, and pure silent-era mayhem. Fun shit.
Anyone else keep busy being a dork ass on Letterboxd? I even pay for it lol. I'm on there as DriveLukeJehu.