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Where to Invade Next

The newest film by Michael Moore. Looks good.

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For more on the movie, and how it fits in with his life's work, read this article: https://theintercept.com/2016/02/10/where-to-invade-next-is-the-most-subversive-movie-michael-moore-has-ever-made/

To summarize, clearly we're doing it wrong. 

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Category: Film
Created: 11 February 2016
  • Politics,
  • Michael Moore,

Anomalisa

And finally saw this, much anticipated, even more disappointed.

Not that it was bad, it was slow, yes, the theme of disconnect was well achieved through the use of the same voice for all characters, the confusion between the internal/external, monologue, dialogue, the themes of alienation, inability to connect in a meaningful way certainly resonated. And Kaufman, nothing he does is less than great or brilliant, but really, I just needed a happier film...

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Category: Film
Created: 27 January 2016
  • Kaufman,
  • Anamolisa,

20,000 Days on Earth

Interesting, but I'm a fan. And it you took away the fandom it's be a bit of a slog. You can know too much about your idols, this quest to touch or understand them, it devalues them, there was really no point. I like his work. I like him. That was enough. The documentary adds nothing. 

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Category: Film
Created: 13 January 2016
  • Nick Cave,
  • Documentary,

Army of Shadows - Jean-Pierre Melville

Tales of the French Resistance, better than Tarantino's Post Nihilism, the prisoner sharing his last few cigarettes with his fellow prisoners to find the pack crushed empty before it can be returned, easily as bleak as anything Tarantino concieved (not surprising, given the circumstances), but overall less brutal, less bloody style, more story. 

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Category: Film
Created: 08 January 2016
  • Nazi,
  • French Resistance,
  1. Memories of Murder - Bong Joon-ho
  2. The Hateful Eight
  3. Unofficial Johnnie Walker Commercial - Dear Brother
  4. A Perverts Guide to Ideology

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