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PARASITE - ★★★★★

Well this is why they make five stars.

This is the movie of the year (and maybe The Movie of the Year) where everyone has collectively decided that you really don’t want to know much about it going in. The trailer is excellent! If you want to see this movie at all, I recommend you go see it and then come back for the second half of this write up, where the spoilers are.

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Tarra’s Most Anticipated Movies of the Rest of 2019*

*ranked by wait-time between their initial release date and when they will at last arrive in Portland

FOUR weeks - Parasite, released Oct 11, Cinema21 will get it Nov 8
3 weeks - Pain and Glory, released Oct 4, Cinema21 will get it Oct 25
2 weeks - Jojo Rabbit, released Oct 18, the Bagdad will get it Oct 31
1 week - The Lighthouse, released Oct 18, Hollywood will get it Oct 25
none to 2 weeks - Uncut Gems, releases Dec 13—I can see this being a Cinema21 pick, at some point, but regardless it’ll at least go wide Dec 25, evidently as Christmas counter-programming in every sense of the word
?? - Marriage Story, releases Nov 8, I’m guessing the Hollywood will screen it at some point because they’ve so far had our back with the limited Netflix runs? but TBD
?? - Portrait of a Lady on Fire, releases Dec 6, I don’t even want to know when it will finally make it here
0 weeks - Knives Out, Nov 27 oh my god just a wide release thank u
0 weeks - Little Women, Dec 25 everywhere woo, and that’s only…two and a half months away!

The Personal History of David Copperfield, First Cow — pushed to 2020

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Updates/Updated Wait Schedule

Since posting this I decided to make my fixations useful to people and started a Film Club—so, functionally, a Google Sheet—and we’ve seen three of the above so far and our new high-water mark of SIX club members are all convening on a Korean restaurant today before PARASITE, at laaasst.

And now, Marriage Story takes its spot in the lead:

3+ weeks - Marriage Story, released Nov 6, Cinema21 will get it Nov 29—as it’ll be on Netflix Dec 6, I guess this means it’s gonna be a ~For Just One Week Only~ thing à la Roma; modern times!
2 weeks - Uncut Gems, releases Dec 13, Living Room will get it Dec 25
?? - Portrait of a Lady on Fire, still no clue
?? - And Then We Danced, honestly unclear if this even has U.S. distribution at this point? but it’s Sweden’s entry in the Oscars, so?
but, -1 week - Knives Out, which is doing advance screenings at the downtown Regal the weekend before the wide release, and I am Interested..

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Sometimes I remember that there’s a massive beef in the paleontological community between Jack Horner and Robert Bakker and it’s so big that when they both worked as advisers on the Jurassic Park films, Spielberg made 2 characters based on them and had a T. rex eat Bakker’s character as a favour to Horner.

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“The bearded paleontologist Dr. Robert Burke, who is eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex in Steven Spielberg’s film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is an affectionate caricature of Bakker.

In real life, Bakker has argued for a predatory T. rex, while Bakker’s rival paleontologist Jack Horner views it as primarily a scavenger.

According to Horner, Spielberg wrote the character of Burke and had him killed by the T. rex as a favor for Horner. After the film came out, Bakker recognized himself in Burke, loved the caricature, and actually sent Horner a message saying, ‘See, I told you T. rex was a hunter!’.”

God this is still funny

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I adore this, because only in a paleotological fued can both parties be satisfied with a caricature of one being eaten by a t-rex.

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JOJO RABBIT - ★★★½

Like the movie equivalent of that Foster the People song ‘Pumped Up Kicks’, where it’s like, so how do we feel that this is a bona fide bop about a school shooter?

Turns out, I feel a lot of things about attractive, accessible art about a horrible violence! I think it has its place! Enter the Jojo Wars. (Plot spoiler-free, amazingly)

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