Benvolio

Favorite films

  • Kid
  • What's Opera, Doc?
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman
  • What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3

All
  • Somnambulists

    ★★★

  • Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts

    ★★★½

  • Christmas on Earth

  • Anora

    ★★★★½

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Somnambulists

1958

★★★ Watched

kinda janky as a standalone thing, but i like Kantor for the way he marries theatre and abstract colour. This is more just the latter, but the roughshod splashiness reminds me of being on a very wet slippery stage

Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts

1970

★★★½ Watched

This is Owens' least great featurette. Some sticky off-cuts from a different film we'll never see. The images feel like they stick onto you brain. Pictures layered on top of each other like a cake, but no sound, which is a pity.

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Metropolis

1927

★★★★ Liked 20

Just me or could you cut the sexual tension between Freder and Josaphat with a KNIFE

L'Atalante

1934

★★★★★ Liked 5

I approached this as usual, like a canonical chore! It's petty and a nuisance, but I don't like my completist bent, I don't want movie homework, and so I can sometimes be less open hearted than I'd like to be when it comes to the real macdaddies of film academe, like this one.

There's usually some sort of technical board pin to spot. The first film to employ such-and-such. Poetic Realism in the case of this film, apprently. But that…