Oswaldo Montilla

Favorite films

  • Satantango
  • Andrei Rublev
  • 8½
  • Persona

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  • Andrei Rublev

    ★★★★★

  • Licorice Pizza

    ★★★★★

  • The Big Sleep

    ★★★★★

  • Eraserhead

    ★★★★★

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Andrei Rublev

1966

★★★★★ 2

Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky is not merely a film; it is a profound meditation on art, history, and the human condition. Every time I revisit it, I feel as though I am stepping into a dialogue with the past, with the essence of creativity, and with the core struggles of what it means to be human. Tarkovsky does not just depict the life of an artist; he unveils the tumultuous spirit of an era and its enduring relevance to…

The Big Sleep

1946

★★★★★ 2

A script as protagonist, Raymond Chandler as a masterful writer who contributed his novel to be adapted by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman; the construction of dialogues are the perfect input to load a plot full of mysteries that possibly towards the end, will not be completely solved. It is even said that both screenwriters and Howard Hawks ed Chandler because they did not understand who was responsible for the crime.

Chandler's contribution to this genre was important;…

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2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

★★★★★ Rewatched

The change in perception, the turning point that science fiction had, is it not the same function that the monolith fulfilled? A clear change in our generation, a filmic testament that should be taken as inspiration but should not be modified, besides I am a clear defender of what works how it is should not have remakes.

A science fiction movie with a study of human relationships and its study of being like no other. This is a great point…

Stalker

1979

★★★★★ 1

God, how much love I feel for Tarkovsky and for this film, in fact, the first one that introduced me to the world and universe of this great teacher, and as I read it in a fragment of another giant like Bergman and that I paraphrase it here, Tarkovsky and his Cinema is a key to a world that I always wanted to enter.

This film was his farewell to his stay in his home and led him into "voluntary"…