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i’m so glad that Rochwacher is making films like this, that italy is making films like this.
such a fuck you to the literalism of the american a24 generation - it may not be perfect but it certainly art
so glad they still make movies for adults
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lynchian in the best way
moving and apt
fractal like in interpretation
Léa Seydoux is impeccable and impossibly beautiful
deeply confident and masterful
probs best film of 2024
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like ok
the editing is 11/10
not sure if zendooey is any good
i like the british boy though
almost the best film of 2024
proves that emma stone is the best producer rn
harrowing.
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shockingly underrated and forgotten for something that was so huge when it came out
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worth watching just for pacino playing roy cohn and mareyl streep playing the ghost of a woman he put in the electric chair
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well made, satisfyingly underacted by Timmy - but very safe
no real ing charechters
saw at friends and family screening
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terrifying
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i honestly had no idea what was going on
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will be thinking about this one for a long time
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technically supreme
like the bittersweet memories of a faded photograph
acted gorgeously
synechodoche
the personal is political the political is personal
perfect double bill with: A Zone of Interest
perhaps a technically perfect film
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Watched on Monday August 26, 2024.
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mad men: the movie
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Watched on Sunday June 30, 2024.
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nothing happens but like in a cute way
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that's entertainment
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Why isn’t your student film this good
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A woman’s love letter to the mystery of the feminine
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Better n better amazing with commentary on rewatch in Mexico
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Apocalypse back then
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historical lesbian cinematic universe entry
imbeccable editing.
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Watched on Monday February 12, 2024.
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Watched on Monday February 12, 2024.
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Watched on Wednesday February 7, 2024.
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How do you make art about something unspeakable?
You don’t say it.
A film that proves it’s still possible to do something new with cinema.
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Watched on Sunday January 21, 2024.
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Watched on Sunday January 21, 2024.
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strongly mid
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Just gets better. Cried from the moon scene til the end.
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Watched on Sunday October 29, 2023.
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Watched on Sunday October 29, 2023.
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A harrowing, desolate experience.
Fully realised anguish.
Do not do what i did - this is NOT a date night selection!
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nice but like ok
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The ideal theatre-going experience.
Pure cinema.
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I dig it.
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A camp tragedy, the half-written notes of a literature student who spent more time smoking weed than reading, two incredible voices.
Kudos to Paul Williams who wrote all the music and stars as Swan.
Watched on Saturday March 18, 2023.
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The first video essay.
The perfect Double feature with John Berger’s Ways of seeing .
This is Welles’ finnegans wake to the Ulysses of Citizen Kane.
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Watched on Thursday March 9, 2023.
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The heart of America.
The story of a people.
Folk history done right
a deeply intelligent film.
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Solid
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Cinema for stupid people. The edgar wright schiool of editing goes nuts. Wokesploitation. No real charecters. Some kind of parody tarantino style plot. Quit around the 90 min mark.
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Watched on Friday January 20, 2023.
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A strange ketamine trip into a parallel world, viewed in soporific post-hangover stupor. The effect of setting the plot in the future but doing nothing to set or costume is genius.
All the best dialogue is stolen from Borges, the atmosphere from Cocteau. Godard at his most derridean.
Ploy needs a re-reading in line with Nick Bostrom and the current super ai discourse. Clearly an influence on Kubrick.
Like many great works synecdoche abounds - the personal is historical, the romantic, mythical.
Scola makes a movie about himself and in so doing makes a movie .
A film about films about politics and about love.
The kind of film that could go wrong in a hundred ways but doesn’t.
Scola gives us nothing but a slice of life in all its bittersweet taste. A script so dense is it about love about politics about the movies itself it is all these things but mostly it’s just a damn good story. Certainly one of the best scripts to come out of European cinema in the 70’s, incredibly dense but never losing sight of its characters yet somehow finding the time to explore love politics, the history of cinema and the nature of integrity in the meantime.
It’s high time that Scola Bertolucci, de Sica, Antonioni and Fellini in the Mount Rushmore of Italian cinema.
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A romp.
On the nose satire, funny and sincere.
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An excersize in narrative restraint so well-executed it delights and expounds. Like a minimalist fanny and alexander. The humbleness of the puritans and the piety of the meal.
A joy to behold.
]]>- Coming Home
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Modern Romance
- An Unmarried Woman
- sex, lies, and videotape
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- Your Friends & Neighbors
- Defending Your Life
- Short Cuts
- The Last Picture Show
...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- The Handmaiden
- The Duke of Burgundy
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- The World to Come
- Ammonite
- Summerland
- Carol
- Tell It to the Bees
- Tipping the Velvet
- Wild Nights with Emily
...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Open Your Eyes
- All About My Mother
- The Swimming Pool
- Contempt
- Amarcord
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Le Bonheur
- L'Avventura
- The Green Ray
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- On the Silver Globe
- Underground
- Performance
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
- Bab'Aziz
- Pastoral: To Die in the Country
- Babette's Feast
- As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
- Tommy
...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>films that bring us close to truth
]]>This is the advanced one
Ideally no trailers
Popcorn is a healthy snack
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Waking Life
- Being There
- Synecdoche, New York
- The Third Man
- Days of Heaven
- Céline and Julie Go Boating
- The Holy Mountain
- The Conformist
- Badlands
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Chinatown
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Boogie Nights
- Sexy Beast
- Upstream Color
- Pi
- Shaun of the Dead
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Blue Velvet
- Oldboy
...plus 116 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>THIS is for all you asking me to give them a film. Don't watch any trailers, if you like the sound of a movie and it's on the list just watch it. The less you know the better.
There's another list on my profile if you want more 'arthouse' these are all pretty accessible i would say.
- Boogie Nights
- Dazed and Confused
- Brick
- Sexy Beast
- Pi
- The Handmaiden
- Annie Hall
- Nine Queens
- Airplane!
- La Haine
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Holy Mountain
- Alien
- Rififi
- Eros + Massacre
- Notorious
- Go
- Nowhere
- Constantine
- Phantom of the Paradise
- Zazie dans le Métro
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Handmaiden
- Raw
- Logan
- Nocturnal Animals
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Youth
- The End of the Tour
- Love & Mercy
- Force Majeure
- '71
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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