director, comedian, screenwriter, and then a fourth job but that one is a joke. big dummy, not a cinephile.
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Drive My Car 2021
my therapist likes to stop me whenever i criticize myself with the word ‘should,' that i should feel some way, that i should have done something. we stop and dig into this statement until i get to the root of it and try to understand how i've internalized whatever idea or feeling or action is meant to be "correct" or "normal." it's a hard thing for me to do because it's always easiest to lightly lean on myself as the…
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Nomadland 2020
when they say "money can't buy happiness" it's meant in a very direct and temporary sense, though it's crucially wrong in that money can unlock security and comfort in ways that can make you happy. but it can't buy freedom.
wealth is nothing more than a mound of dirt. and from atop that mound you can see so much more than you could from the floor. but you can't stand on top of the mound without it slowly eroding below…
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The Player 1992
"Traffic was a bitch."
Put this on at 11pm last night after really digging the latest episode of The Studio and realizing I liked this movie but didn't remember a lot of it. Hits so much more now after a decade of working in LA. Love how Rogen & co. made the show a spiritual sequel vis-a-vis Cranston's character. Just goes to show, if you create a project to show how dumb studios are, everybody will show up to be in it!
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Songs from the Second Floor 2000
Gotta give this a second viewing when I’m less sleepy and not simultqneously playing diplomat between warring cats, but I have always loved Roy Andersson’s style and dry dark sense of humor and I’m glad to have finally checked this out. Extremely Tati-esque (but a bit more accessible to me than Playtime was.) So so so fascinated by his production design and whether he used matte paintings at all or if it was just turn-of-the-century green screen or something else. Whatever it is, it works so well and adds to the spooky atmosphere of what is ultimately a not-at-all spooky movie.
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