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Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · 8d

AAAHHH!! Congratulations!!!

Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · 15d

OKAY. KEVIN. Can we talk about the way it won’t let you use custom albums when you transfer them onto your phone??

Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · 16d

SAM.

One Battle After Another Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s jaw-dropping battle cry | SWITCH.

Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · 17d

My ★★★★★ review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Paul Thomas Anderson’s searing, satirical epic, a prophetic vision that traps you between hysterical laughter and existential screaming. One of his best, and likely the best film of the year. See it on the biggest screen you can.

A new film from Paul Thomas Anderson always comes with astronomical expectations, but 'One Battle After Another' completely surpasses them. It isn't just, arguably, the best film of the year. It's the...

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Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · 23d

I just GASPED.

The Cinema of Powell & Pressburger: Collection One Review: Imprint begins its dive into the great British filmmakers | Blu-ray Review | SWITCH.

Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · 26d

Magnificent.

Josh Abraham @thejoshabraham.bsky.social · 29d

I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!

An illustration of a scene from Fargo drawn in the style of the comic strip The Far Side: Marge encountering the wood chipper situation and exclaiming, “Oh Jeez.”

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Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · Sep 10

My review of THE CINEMA OF POWELL & PRESSBURGER, the tremendous first Blu-ray collection from @imprintfilms.bsky.social of films from the legendary filmmakers, including multiple new special features for every film. A top-rate release worthy of the great films it collects.

Caught Stealing Review: Darren Aronofsky finds his groove with this surprising, boisterous crime caper | SWITCH.

Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · Aug 30

My ★★★★ review of CAUGHT STEALING, the most fun I’ve had watching a Darren Aronofsky film since BLACK SWAN, a cracking romp that doesn’t relinquishing his familiar pessimistic hope in the human race. Plus Austin Butler is really friggin’ hot in it. www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/revi...

It's less of a departure for Darren Aronofsky as it is a pivot, and a much-needed one. You can feel the great director crack his knuckles, flex his muscles, shake off the familiar and try something ne...

Picnic at Hanging Rock Review: Comprehending the incomprehensible heart of the Australian masterpiece | Retrospective Review | SWITCH.

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Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · Aug 9

This week, Peter Weir’s masterpiece PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK celebrates its 50th anniversary. I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to write about my favourite Australian film and what it might say on our collective colonial paranoia about the crimes we’ve committed on these lands.

This is what makes 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' the finest film this country has produced, based on the finest novel this country has produced. It's a bottomless well, deep and dark, so rich in ideas and ...

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · Aug 4

I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.

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Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hard same.

Babe Review: Celebrating this lovely little miracle | Retrospective Review | SWITCH.

Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · Jul 31

This week, Chris Noonan’s glorious Oscar-winning classic BABE celebrates its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion, here’s my retrospective on the film for SWITCH, on how its classical themes and archetypes make it truly timeless, and why it should have won the Oscar for Best Picture.

The cheering crowd are on their feet because they think they've seen a miracle, but we who have travelled with Babe on his journey know differently. We know how he got there, what it took and the sati...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Jul 20

this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies

genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it

also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious

slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Jul 20

“keep politics out of kids movies”

disney in 1973:

death to tyrants! from disney’s animated robin hood

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Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · Jul 20

I really need to see this.

New York, New York Review: Imprint’s elaborate release of Scorsese’s fascinating failure | Blu-ray Review | SWITCH.

Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · Jul 19

A daisy among roses.

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Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · Jul 14

Cor Blok: Frodo turns invisible

an invisible shadowy shape among a bunch of bearded bag-like shapes, on a red ancient-looking background; there's also a table, and a holy ghost

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Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · Jul 16

Daniel Stewart Lammin, MPhil.

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Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social · Jul 14

My review of the @imprintfilms.bsky.social lavish Blu-ray release of Scorsese’s NEW YORK, NEW YORK, a strange yet fascinating formal experiment brimming with emotional brutality and anchored by an astounding Liza Minnelli performance. Despite the lack of a restoration, it’s a terrific 3-disc set.

At its best, 'New York, New York' is a potent portrait of the struggles of balancing the artistic and the personal, the poison of professional jealousy and the violence in the fear of failure. The lat...