His customarily ravishing aesthetic portends the chasms of emotion brimming in wait under the ravishing surfaces of the characters’ lives.
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 9, 2017
Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Tweet of Consciousness: TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
TONI ERDMANN: Like binge-watching a typically paced (stagnantly), structured (too loosely), and shot (point and shoot) modern TV miniseries
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 9, 2017
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Tweet of Consciousness: 13TH (Ava DuVernay)
13TH (Ava DuVernay): 2016’s most essential viewing experience produced for any artistic medium. It should be nominated for Best Picture.
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 6, 2017
THE FITS (CC): Must We Be Slaves to Attention-Maintaining Dialogue?
A promising if not wholly successful ‘experiment’ in a minimalist character study where the character being studied barely speaks.
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Tweet of Consciousness: WHY HIM?
1.WHY HIM?: More like why us, amirite?!?!?! It’s an unwelcome throwback to comedies whose structures rely exclusively on nothing more than
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) December 28, 2016
Tweet of Consciousness: NERUDA (Pablo Larraín)
1. NERUDA (Pablo Larraín): Ambition>execution, but a valid analysis may have required more pre-movie knowledge of Pablo Neruda on my part
— Write All Nite (@aintnohero) December 24, 2016
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Tweet of Consciousness: COLLATERAL BEAUTY (David Frankel)
1.COLLATERAL BEAUTY (David Frankel): Yet again: strong cast (MICHAEL CUMPSTY!), worse material. 2 many movies in 1, none good, all tolerable
— Write All Nite (@aintnohero) December 23, 2016
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THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (CC): And When I Meet God, I’m ‘a Compel Him to Include Women in the Sequel
The Brand New Testament may have one of the best premises of any movie this year, especially due to how deftly it justifies the need for more diverse creators in all artistic worlds.
This Little LAND OF MINE, Oscars Gonna Let It Shine
Just when I thought movies had exhausted every last possible World War II story, along comes Land of Mine, Denmark’s official submission to this year’s Academy Awards that was shortlisted as one of the nine best foreign films of 2016. Since the foreign language branch is notorious for skirting the most critically-acclaimed candidates in favor of more conventional fare – which is often a shame because a large percentage of the most daringly inventive work being produced today occurs overseas – many critics already believe without having even seen the movie that yet another WWII story must conform to this unfortunate trend. But Land of Mine actually does contain a surprising amount of contemporary, relevant, resonant profundity. It may look like the same old WWII flick, but that’s almost the point.
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Tweet of Consciousness: THE EYES OF MY MOTHER (Nicolas Pesce)
Demanding close study, its abstract yet PRECISE minimalism actually does “say a lot by only saying a little.” (2/)
— Write All Nite (@aintnohero) December 20, 2016
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