Happy Thursday, everyone! This is gonna be a short one because so much is going on here down in Richmond, but I do have a couple of things to talk about.
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What with the new Sight & Sound list coming out recently, I've been trying to get to new entries on the list that I've never seen. So I had to pick this up, because it will also count to a thing I try to do every year, where I watch 52 films by women directors. Somehow the only Claire Denis movie I've ever seen is the brilliant High Life from a few years ago, where Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche are on a ship full of prisoners sent to investigate a black hole in lieu of being executed. It's a harrowing, weirdly funny and honestly kind of sexy movie about a bunch of horrible people trying to be better. So yeah, I'll give this a try, Denis' 1999 movie loosely based on Billy Budd. Have I ever read Billy Budd? Heck no. But based on High Life, I'll 100% give it a shot.
Beau Travail is streaming on HBO Max and the Criterion Channel.
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A Silent Voice (聲の形, 2016) was apparently the second-best received movie in Japan that year to Your Name. I absolutely love this cover, which is both intriguing and also...doesn't tell me a damn thing about that the movie is about. So yeah, this is a completely random buy. But the trailer rules! (And tells me it involves Japanese Sign Language.)
A Silent Voice is streaming on Netflix.
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My recommendation for the week is as mentioned above, Your Name (君の名は). It's on the usual places for rent and purchase and very worth a couple of bucks. I'm not even putting in a trailer because you need to go in as blind as possible on this one.
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