Joshua Briond

3 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Akira Kurosawa |Joshua Briond

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1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Ryan Coogler |Joshua Briond

i maintain that the first 100 or so minutes of this is one of the greatest films ive ever seen. just masterful storytelling, incredibly stunning visually, intimate, humorous, historically astute as a period piece. so enjoyable and refreshing, with a wondrous score/soundtrack. i love the vampire storyline but would be lying if i said there wasn’t a part of me that could see this going to even greater heights if the film did not have to include the more violent or action-based aspects of the story.

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Josh Baker |Joshua Briond

watched this for research for a piece i’m working on, and wow. this didn’t teach me much that i didn’t already know. but i still find myself stunned by such casual depravity. specifically with regard to the vigilante/deputized extremist settlers who manage to have some level of influence on israel’s governing body—who do not even see the far-right policy of the current administration as viable or working fast enough to disappear or rather exterminate any semblance of palestinian life.

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Ryan Coogler |Joshua Briond

★★★★½ this gets so fucking close to being a perfect film. i am in complete awe of it.

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Ryan Coogler |Joshua Briond

★★★½ really solid, a lot of heart. i just really do not care for this medium of Black film. like i get it in theory. a lot works here.