A few reviews

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I want an interview like The Act of Killing, where they ask Tarantino to re-enact his conversation where he convinced Dianne Kruger that it had to be him that strangled her to unconsciousness on film.

Kruger does talk about that herself and seemed to think it was all a laugh. The Director chose to not interview Tarantino about anything because she wanted to hear what people thought of him, not be influenced by what he thought of himself. Whether that was the right artistic choice I don't know because I'd have much rather sat there for 2-hours with just him rabbiting on about movies until somebody stopped him .

I remembered it as "The Last Man on Earth" and have struggled for years to figure out why I was misremembering that movie (because there is a film called that but it's different.)

Coincidentally, I plan of watching the 1971 version of that pretty soon. I'm having an apocalyptic binge, which brings me to...

Contagion (2011)
Now we are living it, I wonder how sensationalised a 10-year old Hollywood Coronavirus movie would look? Surprisingly, not much, it's almost prescient and pretty close to the nerve. The only false notes I detected were the cynical assumption that health workers would go on strike and refuse to treat patients in such a crisis (When the opposite has been true, they've gone into battle everyday, regardless of the danger, whether the government provided them with any PPE or not) and how slow the authorities are shown to react, not introducing any preemptive distancing measures and only going to "lock down" once mass panic, rioting and looting was in full swing, instead of well before. Mostly though, it's jaw dropping how close to reality writer Scott Z. Burns got it. With so many disparate plot threads going on, Director Steven Soderbergh wisely employs an all-star ensemble to help the audience remember the faces right from their first shot. Plus those casting choices remove the audience's usual "safety net" of feeling "well they can't possibly kill off that actor" because they are all stars and all expendable. It gets a little schmaltzy at the end, or rather comparatively more schmaltzy compared with the rest of this chillingly bleak and clinical movie. Cliff Martinez delivers another of his propulsive electronic scores.