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"Close Your Eyes," directed by Victor Erice, is the movie referred to in the previous post. It's long, the pace is stately and it's one of the best movies I have ever seen. I think it would work even if you haven't see "Spirit of the Beehive."

I re-read Chang's review in the New Yorker last night after seeing it and he completely nails it so I have nothing to add, except that it's at Film Forum through 9/5.

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On 1/15/2024 at 4:05 PM, Wilfrid said:

I will probably watch the Emmys, but not for the first time the classifications seem weird. Take comedy. The Bear is funny? Jeremy Allan White is a comic actor? Poker Face, with all those brutal murders? Yes, there are funny scenes in Wednesday, but a comedy series? To me, The Honeymooners is a comedy series. Wednesday is actually quite dark.

The Bear is still not a comedy. I guess it does well entered in that category


 

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Finished the final chapter.  Quite satisfactory.  Having watched all of this, I have to consider whether the monarchy is cost effective.  The number of Firm staff per royal is gigantic.  Someone to make the tea and meals, serve them, keep their calendar, dress them, open every door, chauffeur them, guard them, advise them, etc., etc.

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“Evil Does Not Exist,” the new movie from Hamaguchi, was shown live on Criterion last night. Since it was less than two hours long, unusual for Hamaguchi, I watched it. 

Whether you see references to Kobayashi as one review I saw did, or find it showered with Ozu, it’s very beautiful.

Viewers will be “exasperated” by the ending. It’s the journey to get there. 
 

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I have to give credit to Mubi. It sent me an email promising to diagnose my movie-watching personas for the past year. It identified four. The last two were not interesting (“romantic,” what even is that?).

But the first two startled me. #1 “philosopher.” Well yes.

#2 “slow burner.” Again yes, I love slow cinema. Each persona comes with recommendations so this directed me to “Alcarras,” a 2022 Catalan-language movie about peach farmers. Exactly what I would want to see.

Well done Mubi’s algorithms.

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HBO's Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary.  It's a fairly in-depth, sincere exploration of this mocked genre, which actually has a lot of influences from jazz, soul, and R&B.  Great interviews with Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, members of Toto, and others.  All of the music brought me back to long car rides between NJ and Brooklyn/Queens when I was a kid, listening to AM radio (WNBC and WABC). 

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