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Marissa Hernandez
- Nov 16, 2019
Immeasurable Decadence: BREATHLESS
The love for cinema, like any cinephile will often explore and contemplate the contrast in films; storylines, actors’ performances, parallels of aesthetics, and of course themes and as Jean-Luc Godard once said, “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to” and of course, “There’s no such thing as intellectual property.” Perhaps, the conjecture of these statements is where his true reinvention of cinema really reverberated among the masses and what bette
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Marissa Hernandez
- May 16, 2019
Bukowski-like: SOFTNESS OF BODIES
Imagine a wide shot hovering over a woman as she walks with slight gumption through a city square, who has a very noticeable tear in her shirt. She has just casually stolen a blouse, from a nearby clothing store and while fleeing she pauses to smoke a cigarette. Within the first two minutes, you may feel this character has no redeeming quality and she hasn’t even uttered a word, that is until she’s on a metro train transcribing her poetic thoughts on a busted iPhone. This is
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Marissa Hernandez
- Mar 25, 2019
Deadpan with Amusement: THE FAVOURITE
Once upon a time there was young girl who was down on her luck. She fell out of her carriage and into the mud on the way to a job interview. Not the most flattering first impression to make on one’s potential employer but alas after an astute conversation, she was hired as a maid. And then one day she decided to do her due diligence and strive for something bigger. She wanted to change her stars, be something more, because what's more alluring than having no wealth, prestige,
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Marissa Hernandez
- Jun 28, 2018
It's like Frankenstein - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
I love the story of Frankenstein and while applying the loose skeletal structure of that story into Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY well, let’s just say I can feel your eyebrows rise in a curious fashion accompanied with a contorted expression across your face. Stay with me! Stanley’s probably rolling around in his grave. First off, I’d like to admit, I’ve never seen 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, that is until last Saturday afternoon. It was unique because I got to witness the magnu
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Marissa Hernandez
- Jun 12, 2018
Eccentric, Sinister, Hell Fire is HEREDITARY
In the family of horror genre, HEREDITARY is like that long, lost cousin you never knew you had and then one day while eating a chocolate bar with an impassive, deadpan stare watching grandma seemingly sleep peacefully in her casket, you realize something is amiss. Sorrow, pain, tears, perhaps, an uncontrollable, emotional outburst? Why are you not sad? And yet somehow, grief is very much the catalyst that drives the unraveling of this fragile family to great dismay. Such as
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Marissa Hernandez
- Apr 10, 2018
95 Minutes of Terror: A QUIET PLACE
What I thoroughly enjoy about well executed horror films, is on one hand their meant to make you feel fear and in the process of that journey, it often times can result in this sense of empowerment. Perhaps, it’s the notion of running along side the protagonist, because they’re trying to survive something they’re not meant to survive. John Krasinski co-wrote, directed, and starred alongside his wife, Emily Blunt in this classic, refreshing, American horror film, A QUIET PLACE
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Marissa Hernandez
- Feb 14, 2018
Be My Wicked Valentine: PHANTOM THREAD
My mind has been like one of those old school oscillating fans, that constantly over works itself on a sweltering summer day. All the levers and gears in my mind all in synchronized motion as I find myself thinking about Paul Thomas Anderson’s recent film, PHANTOM THREAD. When I initially viewed it, I didn’t know what to make of it. I’ve seen THERE WILL BE BLOOD, THE MASTER, PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, and MAGNOLIA, yet this one feels different. So what better way to sort out my feelin
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Marissa Hernandez
- Feb 2, 2018
So let's talk about RAW
When I read about French, filmmaker Julia Ducournau's RAW last year, I intrinsically knew it be something I’d find fascinating to study. Mind you, I’m still studying it. It’s disgusting, grotesque, where all the horror lies within the flesh, blood, hair, flakey skin, eyeballs, basically your whole anatomy making it narrowly bearable. Its controversy is just as stigmatizing as any Catherine Breillat film and some might even be up there with gnarly Cronenberg film. Whatever hap
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