davide1208

Favorite films

  • Jaws
  • Rio Bravo
  • La Belle Noiseuse
  • Diary of a Country Priest

All
  • Poetry

    ★★★★★

  • Comrades, Almost a Love Story

    ★★★★

  • Aparajito

    ★★★★½

  • Ashes and Diamonds

    ★★★★★

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Diabolique

1955

★★★★★ Watched

A man wrote to Alfred Hitchcock: “Sir, After seeing ‘Diabolique,’ my daughter was afraid to take a bath. Now she has seen your ‘Psycho’ and is afraid to take a shower. What should I do with her?”

Hitchcock replied: “Send her to the dry cleaners.”

From Roger Ebert's review

Written on the Wind

1956

★★★★ Rewatched

“Dorothy Malone wants Rock Hudson, who wants Lauren Bacall, who wants Robert Stack, who wants only to die.”

Thomas Elsaesser

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L'Avventura

1960

★★★★★ Watched

Quote by Michelangelo Antonioni:

“Observing the men and women around me, I discerned the instability and fragility of their relationships. In our present era, we exist amidst profound instability—not only political, moral, and social, but even physical, where the boundary between physics and metaphysics blurs. The world wavers both within and outside of us, and this instability profoundly shapes our psychology and emotions. My film is neither a denunciation nor a sermon; it unfolds as a visual narrative, where I hope to capture the intricate ways in which feelings can be misconstrued.”

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