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Godzilla Minus One — Takashi Yamazaki | In Review Online A new film review of Godzilla Minus One, directed by Takashi Yamazaki & released by Tôhô International, for film review site In Review Online.

On paper Godzilla Minus One might be the best Godzilla movie in nearly 70 years, but in practice it's something much less: a wet-dream of remilitarisation and a condemnation of the Japanese Empire only insofar as it failed to win the war. For In Review Online
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The Curse — Nathan Fielder & Benny Safdie | In Review Online A new TV series review of The Curse, created by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, for film review site In Review Online.

The Curse is like a Safdie movie without momentum, leaving us only to stew slowly in the horrible atmosphere. But thorough a small accumulation of flinches the cutting reflection it casts starts to distort. Reviewed for In Review Online.
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One of the great Reverse Shot pieces: reverseshot.org/symposiums/e...

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There's something about the close-ups, that were present before, but now add detail rather than emphasis. It's missing a certain blankness, a spacious clarity. That fact that Lulu has no mouth unless she's speaking is the key.

I've gotten to the point in Little Lulu where John Stanley no longer draws (or even pencils) the comics, and whilst his narrative construction is still top notch, it has lost some of its special spark.

now seated for (the 4k restoration of):

I think the best horror movie I've watched this season!

legend

I've been putting off watching the last season of How To with John Wilson because, as someone who feels most comfortable living life at a remove, it can be a little too painful. And the c***d episode revealed the trauma of living through that time I didn't even know I had.

the errand boy has, perhaps, jerry's most revealing moments. a both brilliant and deeply embarrassing movie; the patsy is like a more purposeful, self-depreciating variation on it.

four CLASSICS

A steal at any price

MADE IN U.S.A Credit: Cinématographique de France https://open.spotify.com/episode/2thj5dltZ9HDYd6Qg1fe21?si=ff7d8965e1034cf8 Esmé Holden As Jean-Luc Godard moved from one medium to another, from prose to filmmak...

And just earlier this month I tried my best to wrestle with Godard and again with the limits of my Hollywood nostalgia, to some success:
cinemayearzero.com/2023/10/02/m...

Meet Me in St. Louis Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer https://open.spotify.com/episode/3FfWsIUoNhM1vOrIXb4QdP?si=9f4fa59b8e2140cf Don’t Tell Me The Light Are Shining Any Place But There Esmé Holden To me, there is no warmer...

Since then I've written two more time for CYZ.
Last Christmas I wished for the return of the Hollywood Musical and faced the limits of nostalgia in Meet Me in St. Louis:
cinemayearzero.com/2022/12/19/m...

The Earrings of Madame De… Credit: Janus Films https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qV8JGcuA6QsrHOB1g4ILL?si=9f1c1c8de2ef43ff Esmé Holden We always follow the earrings. At first a wedding gift from the unnamed General (Charles Bo...

One year ago today the first piece I ever wrote for a publication was released. I feel like I've come a long way since then and still have so much further to go. Thank you to
Cinema Year Zero (and Cathy in particular) for reaching out and believing in me.
cinemayearzero.com/2022/10/22/t...

i am known around the world as the mcquarrie enjoyer, so nw:

chuck the dog after tucking himself in under a blanket

here's a picture of chuck

if only i had an invite.......

holy shit, yes!!!

a new favourite, i think

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Here they are. You know them, you love them.

Good Dan Clowes New Yorker cover this week

watching hong kong movies makes me wonder why i ever bother with anything else; few things light up my love of cinema more

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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973): That Long Black Cloud is Comin’ Down A lot of Westerns are about the end of an era, but few capture our current sense of decline like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.

"A lot of Westerns are about the end of an era, but few capture our current sense of decline like PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID: a diffuse & indirect collapse where the line between ending & ended is blurred by the fact that no new era is on the horizon." - Esmé Holden

(art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973): That Long Black Cloud is Comin’ Down A lot of Westerns are about the end of an era, but few capture our current sense of decline like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.

In my debut for @bwdr.bsky.social (!!!) I wrote about Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, which, while many Westerns are about the end of an era, speaks specifically to our current sense of decline.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/10/11/p...