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Eric J

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I like movies and music in probably like a 65/35 split. I like food of all kinds but have no desire to learn how to cook.

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Swimming to Cambodia 1987

1h 25m Documentary

For 85 minutes, Spalding Gray fleeces a yarn about his time spent filming The Killing Fields (1984) in Cambodia and gives a brief history lesson about the area as well. And for 85 minutes, I'm enthralled.

Jonathan Demme directs this with as much love and care as he did Stop Making Sense a few years earlier, even though this is simply Spalding sitting at a desk on a stage.

Glad to own it!

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Metropolis 1927

2h 28m Drama

What's left to be said about a 99 year-old movie this storied and revered?

Stunning, riveting, masterful.

And the acting is incredibly well done! Expressive and emotive without feeling overly performative. Some really great choreography I wasn't expecting or prepared for, too.

(Watched the 148 minute 2010 complete restoration)

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Le Samouraï 1967

1h 45m Crime

This was my third watch, and I suppose I've seen this now just about once every 10 years (give or take), and it gets better every time; this watch boosted by seeing Melville's growth throughout his career this year.

I'm glad Alain Delon is Jef instead of Jean-Paul Belmondo (though he might've been a good detective?), Delon is perfect here.

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The Devils 1971

1h 52m Drama

Nothing really to add to my original review - the circus of politics and theatrics of religious fervor never go out of style - so I'll just say two things:

1. So glad I got to catch this on the big screen. It looked the best it probably ever has, and the added/extended scenes were a delight.

2. What was I thinking only giving this a 4.5 the first time around? !

Go see it big and loud while you still can!

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There Will Be Blood 2007

2h 38m Drama

Been meaning to revisit this one for a while now.

Honestly pretty cool that Dillon Freasier (child HW) was like "I'll never top this" and stopped acting - he's so good here!

Danny Day and Pauly D are also pretty good here.

The whole movie...it's pretty good!

(Neat to watch this after Robert Altman's Short Cuts> (1993) and see the dedication at the end of the credits.)

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Short Cuts 1993

3h 8m Drama

I'd seen this only once before, a long time ago, after seeing Magnolia (1999) for the first time and thinking "Okay, I see where Paul may have taken...inspiration..." It was crazy to see how much of this I remembered and how I'd thought about some of these moments a lot over the years without realizing it.

And now, having watched so much Altman over the past 12 months, it was nice to come back to it. So much happens and so little happens at the same time, and it's just really great to be a fly on the wall (😉) to see all these characters live through 48 hours of their lives and how they all intersect and how, no matter what happens, things just keep on keeping on.

A real treat.

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Nosferatu 2024

2h 13m Horror

Outside of feeling a bit of the length at some points, there's much to like here. Lily-Rose gives an incredible and physical performance, and I could watch a whole other movie about the superstitions of the gypsy village.

That said, The Witch remains my favorite of the Eggersverse.

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Frank 2014

1h 35m Comedy

It's been a while since I've watched this, and while I'm sure it was always there, I was struck this time by the idea of how art flourishes in dysfunction and how sometimes the families we choose to be a part of are the dysfunction we need for that art to flourish.

I don't know, I've been under the weather all weekend and this was my take away this time while on meds and unable to fall asleep last night.