Geoffrey Firmin
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Excellent ensemble cast and great story. The cigarette smoking is constant and its good for your health..not.
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Hard to rank this one. If you like Wes Anderson, you'll like it. I found 2 of the 3 major vignettes really compelling. The other was kind of meh. The prologue/epilogue were also kind of meh.
So evaluating overall, not his best, but the two vignettes I liked really sucked me in.
If you're not into Wes, you'll probably hate it.
I also think the Alamo pre-show really helped set this one up, showing a lot of the influences he drew on for the film. Probably will see it again. There's not much else worth seeing, and I have dat Alamo Season Pass.
Dystopian Sci Fi still good after all these years and maybe closer to the truth of predictions of the Climate Emergency than one would like.
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Memoria
Enjoyed it... for what it is.
Enjoyed it. But fell asleep once only to be awaken by the mystery "sonic boom" sound rather like the lady protagonist herself in the movie, I guess it's a case of life imitating art in real time.
The action is more aural than visual. What is visual is contemplation and there is plenty of it. Something to look at like at a still, until something unexpectedly happens, except that it never does bar one instance. What's going on? (if anything) apart is the question and the answer is with the viewer, although aliens may or may not have been involved.
The mystery sound is a candidate for an Oscar, outplayed everyone.
Memoria
will open at the IFC Center in New York on December 26—and only at the IFC Center.
From now until the end of time, insists Neon, Memoria will screen “in front of only one solitary audience at any given time,” moving “from city to city, theater to theater, week by week.” There will never be a release on Blu-ray or DVD, and the film will never stream on any service. “The only means of experiencing Memoria will be in theaters . . . forever.”
The fact that Gene Hackman wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Royal Tenenbaums is a travesty.
On Netflix: first movie that came up in my recommendation list, and instantly hit play.
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Immensely rewatchable. One of my favorite Pitt performances, but really found Jonah Hill's performance to be exceptional in its restraint and timidity this time around.