This was great. Fritz Lang does a Technicolor Western with punchy framing and progressive bonafides. What more do you people want?
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More Spotted: early use of the exonym "the East Village."
These suburban whites are loathsome phonies, but the gravitas of Sidney Poitier surpasses understanding.
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More Exquisitely photographed, FAUST relishes in visual effects for the sake of melodrama and vice versa. The originality and excitement of Murnau's painterly images emphasize an artistic temperament enraptured by excess: excessive passion, excessive suffering, excessive visual stimulation. Faust himself suffers for his attraction to Mephisto's promised splendor until an unconvincing and sentimental deus ex machina reasserts the primacy of love, both humane and divine, over the corruptions of lust and power. This happy ending, however, only satisfies the dilemma posed…
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Sophomoric, saccharine, saturation; Twee nihlism for the Rick and Morty set. It (inadvertently? cynically?) plays off the same dubious opposition between despair and middle-class family feeling as if they were coequal alternatives rather than inextricably linked. The fact that this isn't a fatal flaw speaks to the sheer intensity of commitment from everyone involved and to the joy of cinematic splendor that the direction imperfectly describes. A must see for fans of sex-toy jokes and Marcel the shell.
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