i had a long, heartening conversation with writer/director jane schoenbrun about this very raw and special film that will mean a great deal to many people: www.gq.com/story/i-saw-the-tv-glow
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La Chimera 2023
i’m taken with the use of the hanged man tarot card, which is recreated in the poster design and also subliminally recurs throughout the film when the frame periodically flips 180 degrees, positioning arthur upside down while standing up.
the hanged man is one of tarot’s major arcana cards, which use archetypes to symbolize significant life experiences. when the card is upright, the figure is dangling upside down from one ankle, the other leg crossed behind, arms gently folded, with…
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What Time Is It There? 2001
my favorite tsai ming-liang i’ve seen so far. a three-pronged portrait of loneliness, grief, liminality, seeking; the rituals through which we try to conjure something — or someone — that’s missing (and how sometimes it works, though not in the way we expect.) i like the structure and editing, beautiful photography, and the tone that floats from funny to dreamy to mournful and back again.
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
sat fully upright and didn’t move for the entire runtime. marty is the master for a reason: no one else can do what he does. the way this film is in conversation with his other work — about the ideological project of america, about love, about evil, about complicity — is staggering. lily gladstone is fucking spellbinding. i wept so much for mollie. she and her family are the soul of this thing; as the film moved further away from…
