Tag: Romance
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Let The Sunshine In (2017)
I love director Claire Denis, but I always filed Let The Sunshine In (2017) within the “I’ll get around to it” category within her filmography. I think it’s really the fault of the English title and the Hair musical associations I had in my head from it (the French title I think translates more towards… Read.
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Please Baby Please (2022)
Director-writer Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please (2022) reminded me of discovering Johnny Suede on SBS when I was young. The discovery of an arthouse American indie cinema morphing together the past and the present, a receptacle for a filmmaker’s fetishes. Empty alleys or street facades. Apartment interiors on a studio set. Creating a whole situation to let make-up, hair,… Read.
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Sparrow (2008)
Movies in love with the movies. Hong Kong director Johnnie To began making Sparrow (2008) over three years in between other projects, most of them crime movies about cops and/or gangsters like Election and Exiled. There’s an element where it feels like Sparrow was another lane to escape to, and even though it is still… Read.
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Ash Is Purest White (2018)
Wanting to explore more of Chinese director Jia Zhangke’s filmography, Ash Is Purest White (2018) intrigued me because of how it appeared. In the poster and key images I’ve seen, the film is marketed as a romantic crime movie. And yet, that’s only one third of the story. While I was watching Ash Is Purest… Read.
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Gun Crazy (1950)
Always gratifying to hear about a film for a long time that’s considered a classic, like Gun Crazy (1950) is considered a classic of film noir, and when you finally watch it, it’s so clear and apparent how great the movie is. Yes, this is a classic. Why did it take me so long to… Read.
