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four months pass...
Me, nine years ago in this thread: "This is my age speaking, but I now question why I'd want to see it more than once." It was playing at a nearby rep tonight--4K restoration, what a gimmick; the print I saw nine years ago was also a restoration--so I of course was there, just so I could see it with an audience.
I've come to know the guy who runs the theatre a bit, so I was glad for him that it was almost full. I've crossed that too-many-times point with room to spare; my admiration for the film was even more detached than last time.
On the way home, though, I was thinking there's a book in the endings to some of the most prominent American films of 1974: TCM, Chinatown, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, California Split, The Parallax View. They all speak directly to the tumult and exhaustion of the previous decade: the apocalyptic violence of the first two, the numbness and spiritual depletion of the next three, and the way The Parallax View comes full circle to how it begins, the sense of time in a loop.
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 June 2023 04:38 (eleven months ago) link
'75, but very much in line with the others I mentioned (plus the famous line about one side losing more slowly than the other).
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 June 2023 16:09 (eleven months ago) link