Titanic (3D 4K Rerelease): The only rewatch I’m including. Finest use of 3D I’ve seen, seeing hundreds of people suffering, but each as clear as day, each life having equal weight and value on the biggest screen imaginable. Took an already terrific film and made it even better.
Judgement at Nuremberg: Over three hours, Stanley Kramer and “Cinema’s greatest listener” Spencer Tracy viscerally examine, confront, and definitely demolish Nazism in what is one of the most important and finest films I’ve ever seen. A movie everyone should be required to see.
Linoleum: Fav film of 2023. My favorite Maya Deren quote says that film should create worlds that can only exist within the medium, and by the end of this Kaufman-esque sci-fi journey through failed dreams, memory, and identity, I saw that quote in action like nothing I’ve seen.
Room by Emma Donoghue: One of the most emotional and raw reads I’ve had since A Monster Calls. A powerful tale of a mother’s love just as equally as it’s a coming of age story for a five year old. The movie’s fantastic too, but the book packs a punch like nothing I’ve seen.
Koyaanisqatsi: Now that’s how you do an essay film. In examining how humanity intersects with industry and technology, on the natural world and our souls, it states a chilling prophecy that within the precious materials we’ve dug from the earth, we’ve sown our own destruction.