Category: movies
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A New Perspective
The first five times I watched Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, I walked away yearning to be just like Laurie. To have his confidence and cool and stature. And all his vests. But on the sixth watch, a year and a half after the fifth, I suddenly saw the movie differently. It wasn’t Laurie’s character I…
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
The other night, I watched a documentary called Jiro Dreams of Sushi (you can watch it on Prime). It had been on my list for a long while, and I stumbled across again while in just the right mood, alone in the living room early on a Wednesday evening. I love it when the happens.…
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Movies I watched in March, 2021
I finally finished my ‘What I watched’ video for March. Here she is. Right here.
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Abstraction in Movies
There are a couple of beautiful moments in Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox when the characters – extremely tactile puppets made with fur and cloth – suddenly turn into smooth plastic versions of themselves, glowing from within. It’s not as if the film is a picture of realism, but these moments depart entirely even from…
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Booksmart meets Judas and the Black Messiah
The other day, I watched a movie called Booksmart. It was hilarious, and energetic, and vibrant – too wild of a ride for me at times – but a truly great film about friendship and self trying new things. I walked away from that movie, as I often do, with a sense of jealousy or…