For better and for worse, around this time of year, I find myself watching movies through the lens of the Academy Awards.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Complicity and Agency
Today comes to you courtesy of my neuroses.
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International Triplet
Triple feature Dear Comrades!, Quo vadis, Aida? and La Llorona for an International-shortlisted cinematic smorgasbord about the maternal interplay between the personal and the political, specifically when the political becomes familially personified.
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The World to Boxd
Letterboxd has got me in an anecdotal mood; regarding The World to Come:
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A Boxd Clip Show
Here’s a taste of the bite-sized tastes to be had on my Letterboxd:
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Letterboxd
Readers of Write All Nite now have a second place to find my musings on all things film: Letterboxd.
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MnM
How to quantify one’s own perception of truth in art?
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JDW
John David Washington’s turns in 2018’s BlacKkKlansman and this year’s Tenet feel like companion pieces performances, and the relationship between them can be summarized in modern parlance by this gif:
Sound of Epiphany
My epiphany occurred a few minutes before his.
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21st Century Best Pictures — 2020
Today’s topic: oversights — two for me, and one for the casual moviegoing (or, this year, moviestaying) public at large.
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