Yeah, for sure. My love of the film is predicated on a specific reading of the magical negro stuff. For different interpretations (and I don't think mine is "right" and others are "wrong") the movie totally falls apart.

Right, I remember them being "officially" disavowed, though they still claimed to be in it. Are they just using the name or is this actually the collective?

This sounds like latter day Godard crossed with Dušan Makavejev—and somehow still terrible.

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Oh, the one with Heinz! Even his name…

The courtroom scene is a classic.

Not gonna lie, the image of John Malkovich hacking (whoever, I can't remember) to death gave me nightmares for a long time. Probably one of the most uncomfortable moments in my movie-watching history.

"No" is probably the greatest movie that I mostly never think about. Maybe I just need to see another Larraín, and this sounds pretty intriguing.

Hudsucker is so overdue for critical reappraisal. IMO their third or fourth best.

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Hello, I really like Public Enemies.

I'm not even convinced it's lesser Mann. Lesser than Thief, but so is everything.

I know, how dare I ask for somebody's advice on finding art outside of US cultural streams—streams of information that are strong and controlling enough that this Inventory exists at all? Fuck me, right?

But then who would have scored Community's zombie episode??? HMMMM?????

So serious question: how did y'all know about these?

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What always draws me to the French New Wave and its makers are those movies that combine emotional life and politics/philosophy. I mean, I like Godard's crazy shit too, but Masculin Feminin is just about a perfect movie. Ditto, say, Cleo from 5 to 7. Out 1's been sitting on my computer for months now and I'm trying to…

Wow, that linked Madagascar clip may have just turned me around on what Dreamworks is capable of.

Regardless of whether one agrees with Black's reading of The Danish Girl in particular (I've not seen it and don't care to), that review is just an incredible primer on issues of trans representation and political film criticism.

I just watched The History of White People in America, a 1985 parody of those documentaries about minority life in the US. It's pretty fantastic. It opens with a po-faced Steve Martin addressing the camera, "Hi, I'm Steve Martin, and I'm a white person. And not a very good one."