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It’s not often a drama such as this- played straight without hard abstraction- can feel so heartfully poetic.

Seeing an I Think You Should Leave sketch character have to live in a world for more than 5 minutes just kinda made me… sad?

Often when watching films, I have this strange and useless thought- “Why was this a film, and not something else?” Even if it’s a film I like, even if it’s one I love, I may still struggle with this idea- because often, why not? Thankfully, I’ve never had this problem with any film made by Godard, and I don’t think I ever will. He makes things only for the cinema-

Some pretty interesting formalist elements here for a horror movie!!

Crazy how this film has both some of the best arthouse AND vérité style filmmaking I’ve seen, as well as maybe some of the best editing ever too- which is crazy considering the post-production of this film. Orson felt so far in the future with this one, just as he did with Citizen Kane it seems.

FRANCISSSS!!!!!! Why are people such idiots… Coppola is one of the best to ever do it man.

Thank heavens it’s so zany

I’d hate to call this a biopic, ‘cause it actually feels like a film!! Made with an immediate sense of energy, with a ion flowing through every vein of every second. And the haze that fills the frame of this entire movie are what dreams are made of- they could never make me hate you post 70’s Coppola, never!

P.S. this would make a very interesting double feature with The Wind Rises.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Cinema is a medium of both space and time- and while most of my favorites are one’s that have played and fixed time, this is one that has mastered the space is moves within. A constantly evolving collage of pure motion, of shapes and colors, and of heart. Make your art against all odds, because it’s in your blood- because you’re driven.

Rad AND real!!

I had felt so weird about this film for about the entire first half, it felt as though I was just watching it in some sort of see-through-vision. But, halfway through the movie, I realized I was in the exact same headspace as the characters- and I was tearing up! Seems Angelopoulos really is just one of the best…

Maybe I just need to watch more westerns, but I was very tickled and very enamored by this films strong sense of time and place- and it’s very deliberate pacing. I wanted a film that would make me want to move out west and live with nature, and I got one!

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The type of shit that will forever be core to my being, because it always had to have been.
Learning life is happiness all to late, but knowing to go out with a bang~

Real

Lucas finally found his middle ground with this one, the opera he’d been searching for all this time~

What a thoroughly interesting combination of things I really liked, and things I really didn’t!!

I will forget about this tomorrow, but, “get away from her you bitch!!”

High-key so absurdly, earnestly fantastical that it’s hard not to just be swept up in it all (less Donald Trump looking ass dog tho please…)!! But, lowkey doesn’t have a coalescence of any sort of essense?

Excellence. The wind’ll rise, and dreams’ll rise. We will move to create and act as only we ever could- It’s as inevitable as life and death, and we’ll always have to live with the consequences. But we must try to live…

I’m sorry for falling asleep again in you cinema class, thank you for playing a banger still

The slowly dawning realization of void depicted and abstracted through beautiful landscape. Can’t believe I ever thought Van Sant was just Good Will Hunting guy, because this was an abstracted empathetic force.

If someone else is walking, maybe I can too~

Seeing this in imax prolly’ changed my life, such a gently- but oh so damn grand- cinematic ode to nature

Not near as hot on this as Snake Eyes (like what was Sally doing bro), but that ending was juice!!

Is… is this directing? Capital ‘D’ directing? I feel like I just had sex with this movie.

“Just bitchin’ technology.”

YES!!

Lowkey too high, but wow.

Watched on Thursday March 20, 2025.

I think I might have been a bit too out of it this time around, RELOAD.

Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

Cinema class got me again (fell asleep drats!)

Yeah I cried

Happy endings in a modern world.

Gets a little caught up with becoming a more basic movie with the amount of real world “final battle” stuff there is going on- but I mean, its highs sure are still high (those last 20 minutes!)!! Able to thematically close out the trilogy, and no other blockbusters are trying to mean as much as this. A whole lifetime of our own beauty in that final image~

This still feels like it was made by the exact same people as the first, I don’t know what anybody’s talking about.

The inkling, a choice- the rabbit hole, the impossible idea for something more… Watched on an iPhone😳

YUH.

Ending got me.

And why don’t we like Avatar?? Powerhouse.

I might start becoming one of those super letterboxy type people that give really precise number ratings in their reviews, cause the stars aren’t really cutting it anymore- I want this to be a 4.25 star c’mon!! But yeah- kinda like the archetype of storytelling? The vehicle of the vehicle- as a vehicle for the true form of story in its suspension of disbelief. Literally the name of the movie serving this. We ain’t ever been suspended like this before, like a video game, like a dream- like a life!

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

His best? Maybe… 
His best directed? Ohhhhh yeah.

Oh to be young again…

Again, I think- wow. But, still kind of torn on this one. Thematically and emotionally, it’s toe to toe with Unbreakable. Honestly, maybe even above it. But also, and maybe this will forever just be my problem with digital filmmaking- it just feels (in of editing, directing, shooting, etc.) like a regular action thriller movie. Which is so frustrating, because the substance within that style is so heart-achingly beautiful!! Could’ve been a favorite, maybe it is, maybe I’m just a cinematic fool…

Edit: until I rewatch, yeah it’s a 5

Doesn’t have quite the same magic or final power as Unbreakable, but an even more unique sense of empathy. High hopes for Glass!

Yup, wow. Rain and raincoats- we’re all human and superhuman. Because we are alive with weaknesses is why we have our own superpowers…

Edit: another movie I wish I could just rate a 4.75!!

No Tom Waits:(

Maybe the most competently made film… like, ever? I felt like my entire living was just affirmed- that my everyday existence is my own infinity. I also feel so connected, to the people in my memories- and the memories that they might’ve had. Because our memories are the lines of our lives, and everything that happens- everything that can happen is within that. That’s our infinity, and that final shout is the entire effort of my life…

Never have I seen a film so violently juxtapose itself, with itself. All to show the paradoxical poles of our lively existence- all the same, a love- a feast, a soldier- a tiger, a city- a jungle, a life- a spirit~

Movies with a strong spiritual and metaphysical quality, expressed personally on a micro level

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Persona
• On the Silver Globe
• City of Pirates
• The Color of Pomegranates
• El Topo
• Santa Sangre
• Mirror
• Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees

Movies with a strong spiritual and metaphysical quality, expressed universally on a macro level

• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Mulholland Drive
• Southland Tales
• Three Crowns of the Sailor
• One from the Heart
• The Holy Mountain
• Inland Empire
• Pierrot le Fou
• Dog Star Man

No I will not explain myself

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Donnie Darko
• Spider-Man 2

• Three Crowns of the Sailor
• Manoel’s Destinies
• Three Lives and Only One Death
• Time Regained
• City of Pirates
• The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
• Life Is a Dream
• On Top of the Whale
• Love Torn in a Dream
• Dog's Dialogue

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Three Colours: Blue
• Three Colours: White
• Three Colours: Red
• The Scar
• No End
• Blind Chance
• Dekalog
• The Double Life of Véronique
• Camera Buff

• Notre Musique
• Nouvelle Vague
• JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
• Scénario du film ion
• Every Man for Himself
• Number Two
• Tout Va Bien
• Keep Your Right Up
• King Lear
• Goodbye to Language

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Eros and Wonder
• Burying the Dead (Into the Light)
• Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)
• Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
• Et Resurrectus Est
• Illuminated Texts
• A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy
• Look! We Have Come Through!

• Meditation on Violence
• The Very Eye of Night
• Ritual in Transfigured Time
• The Private Life of a Cat
• At Land

• Faust
• Conspirators of Pleasure
• Little Otik
• Lunacy
• Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)
• Insect

• The Tree of Life
• Badlands
• Days of Heaven
• To the Wonder
• Knight of Cups
• The New World
• A Hidden Life
• Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

• Persona
• Thief or Reality
• The Color of Pomegranates
• The Saragossa Manuscript
• Un Chien Andalou
• Safe
• Life Is a Dream
• Three Crowns of the Sailor
• Manoel’s Destinies
• Kin-dza-dza!

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Santa Sangre
• Fando and Lis

• August in the Water
• Crazy Thunder Road
• Mirrored Mind
• Burst City
• Labyrinth of Dreams

• Pierrot le Fou
• Masculin Féminin
• Contempt
• Weekend
• Alphaville
• La Chinoise
• Made in U.S.A
• Breathless

• Planet Earth
• Planet Earth II
• The Blue Planet
• Blue Planet II
• Our Planet
• Seven Worlds, One Planet
• Life

• Time Bandits
• Brazil
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• The Fisher King
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Twelve Monkeys
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Tideland
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• The Zero Theorem

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• The Seventh Seal
• Persona
• Autumn Sonata
• The Silence
• The Virgin Spring
• Winter Light
• Cries and Whispers
• Wild Strawberries
• Through a Glass Darkly
• Fanny and Alexander

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.