I consider the ability to watch Marie Antoinette on 35mm twice in the span of a year a cultural advantage for Los Angeles. Even with its anachronisms, it has the texture of a throwback period piece from the 1980s or 1970s, especially on film. Might be the last of its kind. As good as it was, not even The Favourite quite got there.
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A tearjerker that quietly eschews big tearjerker moments, rather using the terrifying tragedy at its center to reveal something even more terrifying: how fragile the bonds of family and community—the stuff used to sell us greeting cards, homes and even the movies, propping up everything else in modern life—can really be, especially when they are given one sizable, disruptive push. In the same way Paris, Texas benefited from usually ing actor Harry Dean Stanton employing everything in his toolbox to…
Movie comedies and movie stars are back! (The movie comedy being an update on Neighbors [1981] and the movie star being Tim Robinson doing his Adam Sandler ca. Punch-Drunk Love.)
Works so well as an extended I Think You Should Leave sketch, with common setups like Neighborhood Party, The Conference Table, and Theme Restaurant that I was surprised that DeYoung hadn't worked with Robinson on that enterprise before, though he certainly knows small-screen comedy through his work on PEN15, I…
