Tag: shadows-over-six-towers

Full Moon in New York, 1989 - ★★★½
April 25, 2024
Beautifully moody hangout movie, with three Chinese women from different worlds trying to find their way in New York. I’m 100% sure I missed a lot of the subtleties; still loved letting it wash over me. There was some interesting material with food as a substrate for assimilation. The Western wedding cake at the beginning, the […]
Seattle International Film Festival 2024
April 22, 2024
399: Queen of the Tetons Admissions Granted After the Fire Agent of Happiness AGGRO DR1FT Agra, une famille indienne All Shall Be Well All We Carry / Lo Que Llevamos All Your Faces Àma Gloria ...plus 135 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Born Yesterday, 1950 - ★★★
April 19, 2024
Judy Holliday is an easy five star performance in a movie that’s otherwise pretty average. It vibrates between comedy and drama without ever reaching the heights of either, and it’s fairly predictable. The dialogue is not snappy.Really loved Holliday’s performance, though. The way she drawls her way through her scenes, showing her self-consciousness by the […]
The Social Network, 2010 - ★★★★
April 19, 2024
Amazing script, amazing directing, amazing cast. Soundtrack isn’t bad either. My final opinion resolves around the intended impact of that last scene — reload, reload — and I just can’t find much sympathy for this movie’s Zuckerberg. In the hands of another screenwriter, I’d think that was the whole point. In the hands of Aaron […]
Beau Travail, 1999 - ★★★★★
April 13, 2024
Yeah, I could see this a million times. Impressions:The painted human silhouettes that open the film are visions of the muscled human bodies that follow over and over again.The lack of exposition is intended to echo the male condition. “Lost.”