Modern master shit worthy of it's hyperbolic, notorious reputation. only film i can think of that perfectly combines the strengths of a playwright approach in a deep character/scene level with a super cinematic approach in it's formal choices. a genuinely strange, endlessly interesting film that slyly and intelligently conveys it's meaning in it's distinct, weird structure while somehow still being a detailed character study (sort of). both naturalistic and operatic somehow. love it's incredible, weird edit. alternates between intentionally truncated…

What makes a stage-play-esque film a film and not just a filmed stage play? Obsessed w the bigger question of why does anything need to be a film. This really embodied my fave adage of the form should fit the content. A stage play feeling film about a man who dedicated his life to stage plays whose life, oft mentioned, is like a tragic (ambiguously gay) play. So many of its more dogmatic formal choices that would potentially bore me/  trick…

Never thought i’d be the type of mf to write a faux-academic review/ essay on LB'd, but true heads know I’ve been waiting for this one, so if I do it once it’s gonna be this. When one of my top 10 filmmakers who only puts out a film every decade drops, I relent, becoming what i've most feared: a writer procrastinating on letterboxd.

This is a divisive film, as if I would expect anything else from an artist with…