Maurice (1987). Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Can anyone direct sensuality like James Ivory? God, this is so, so good, just breathless with its own sprawling passion and it's alternating need to repress and experience and sometimes, eventually, to share too. Ivory's firing on all cylinders here, both as a director and a writer, and he brings out the best in a pretty stellar cast. This might just be my favourite Hugh Grant role? Just - - yes! Cinema! 9/10.
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the only thing that “deserved” a nom in the barbie movie were the hair and costumes like they were completely on point. snubbed.
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Anyways America Ferrera really is the only one in that cast who deserved an Oscar nom, because of how she was able to deliver that cringe ass speech at the climax and not make me want to kill myself the whole time she was speaking
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anyway i think award shows should stop trying to be funny. you’re never gonna be relevant again just accept that but especially and most importantly you will Never be relevant again by being funny.
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the way we're going to have to sit through tons of "you just hate to see women winning" posts about barbie... like, NO i have no problem with women winning, i have a problem with a lackluster white feminism 101 movie getting undue praise.
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aronofsky is a hack, we know this, but i think there is nuance to be had in giving brendan fraser his overdue opportunity
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Ran (1985). In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
King Lear adaptations, my beloved. This is genuinely such a staggering feat of cinema - visually sublime and full of tension, texture and complexity. The use of colour and the environment just sings, and I really wish I'd gotten to see it on the big screen. Magic stuff. 8.5/10.
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