Jesse Atkinson

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Favorite films

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • 8½
  • The Departed
  • Pulp Fiction

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  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

    ★★

  • The Searchers

    ★★★½

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    ★★★★

  • Before Sunrise

    ★★★★½

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling
★★ Watched

This didn’t need to exist. As an interviewer and interrogator of his subject Andrew Dominic utterly fails. This film is mostly an excuse to use a very expensive large b&w 3D camera and for Andrew to hang out with a musician he adores. 

Also the part where the camera zooms in and then enters the head and brain and back out the other side of the woman singing reminded me of all his terrible artistic choices he made in “Blonde”,…

The Searchers
★★★½ Watched

I expected to love this. I did not. It was solid, but ultimately too piece meal. It just felt like a book with a few missing chapters. And some of the characters emotional back and forths were annoying. This is a common complaint of mine with older films — particularly John Ford’s. He’ll go from “we gotta save the girl!” to “here’s a slack stick gag!” to “actually let’s kill the girl!” inside of two minutes. It gives the viewer…

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Hackers
★★★★½ Liked Watched

Rewatch because my friend Rosemary had never seen. Still amazing.

I Saw the TV Glow
★★★★★ Liked Watched

I will write a review later. But god damn. This movie works in all levels and if it doesn’t work for you IDK congrats on being born perfect? IDK man. This movie worked.