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Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Heaven is our HOME which is why the angels are dancing to HOUSE music

Strange duality of man, and the object of  and desire of goodness

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

“Por que motivo a Razão ser inimigo de Deus?”
“Porque Ele é real, e ele não. O razão não se encontre nem no homem nem no mundo, e ainda menos em Deus.”

“Why would Reason be an enemy of God?” 
“Because God is real, and Reason is not. Reason exists neither in man nor in the world, and even less in God.”

A transitional work in the oeuvre of Curtiz, at times derangedly artistic (the sequence when she meets her father is amazing) yet still carrying the same profound emotion in the souls of all his films. 

The version I saw today was 117 minutes, with piano accompaniment. When this film was first released, the title cards in general were much longer— obviously, because people were still becoming accustomed to reading text onscreen. So as an homage to those people, who sat in the cinema in that specific time and space, I’m happy to have spent that same time with the film as them!

“If I wasn’t quite so fond of the quiet of the tomb, I’d love the sound of those trees and the murmur of the stream where I watch dead leaves gliding over the clear waters. I’d love the humble presbytery which for 300 years has welcomed into its rough stone bosom those hard-working, ignorant yet peaceful generations of blessed savages who have lucidly, loved and served their Creator” 

The master of time and death!

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

“Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us." For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, or in its gold. Its glory is in its Age.“
-John Ruskin

Throughout the film, in the offices of those “collectivists” who oppose the mighty “indivualist” are paintings of Roman ruins. It is said that romantics love ruins. In the film, these are the men whose ideals belong to memory. Perhaps it comes from their fear for the ing of time— a fear of the violent marks left by this ing. It is for this that they also fear and reject Howard Roark. For his ability to come to with time flowing through him, his creations, through all peoples. A surge of greatness, hope, dignity, and beauty.

THE WILL TO LOVE IS STRONGER THAN THE FORCE OF DESIRE

something subtle and shocking about this film, like a memory you are trying to but can never fully see it all

Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

“Excellent painter! Very deep mystery! This is the beauty, the image of man that brought joy to the world.”

Transgressing the barriers of reality to a greater plane in time and space. In which Oliveira transfigures the man, encapsulating the image of this holy figure, to be a present truth throughout our own singular time. That last shot… spring time coming into fruition… from patience, love, and hope

The Lubitsch touch!! It’s a touch that’s not just on the surface, but penetrates into the soul of mankind! 
The relationship between Gary Cooper’s strength and vulnerability is unmatched… I love him so much

movies aren’t sexy anymore:( bring back the tight leather, the vomit color grading, epic slo-mo kung fu, and sex scenes! sterility in modern blockbusters is akin to humanity just giving up on itself

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

This film is like a song, a beautiful melody you can’t get out of your head, an eternal melody repeating over and over

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 12, 2025.

“Always you wear a mask… to hide the soul that is in you.” 

The truth of cinema is this: one image following the next, each with its own place in time. Each image carries its own gravity. All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might . Hidden within her eyes, is the truth of her essence! The invisible gravity, that hidden mask.

The grace and precision of Hong, everything is divine— the power of words, every stroke of a paintbrush, their breath in the cold, a light snowfall.

miracle after miracle after miracle, as if it were a film to build up your hope, a test of love
 
“My eyes are still filled with you” 
“I will be your eyes” 

From IMDB: After the great French film historian Georges Sadoul died in 1967, his friend Henri Langlois, the curator of the French Cinematheque, turned to a screening to console himself. With thousands of titles at his disposal, he chose "Seventh Heaven".

Each of us in our own way, fighting for ownership of a small piece of love in the world, against death, the energy whose pressure is natural, relentless, and flows from time

Watched on Wednesday March 5, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 5, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

A film that is completely bathed in the light of love… one of the greatest films ever made. Double Bill with Ozu’s Late Spring. Fathers and Daughters… why do we stop ourselves from happiness! To spare the ones we love from our suffering?
I don’t think I’ve ever been so haunted by a voice I couldn’t hear. The film has a relationship with the sensory… you could feel every time he touched his daughter’s face, and all the kisses she gave on his chin.

One of those films that is pure magic, Carpenter was possessed will making this film. Its truly so shocking and beautiful. I mean, how can you define beautiful? I’m not sure how to explain, but Carpenter genuinely tried. 
I’m obsessed with that scene in the diner, when she’s recalling her honeymoon— Bridges’ comedic timing is pure grace.

A strange film yet it still encomes all the yearning of a classic Ray. It’s the way people walk, how they look at each other, and the little gestures that all constitute the phrases: “I want you”, “Come to me”, “I waited for you”, “I love you”.

Films I’ll show my kids

• RR

1. Ordet
2. Monsieur Verdoux
3. No Home Movie
4. Secrets
5. The First Legion
6. The King of Kings
7. How Green Was My Valley
8. The Robe
9. Joan of Arc
10. The Letter

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Eyes Wide Shut
• Metropolis
• Buffalo '66
• Wild Strawberries
• Song to Song
• On the Beach at Night Alone
• Doctor Zhivago
• Stromboli
• Summertime
• The Strange Case of Angelica

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films with legendary piano scenes

• When Tomorrow Comes
• I've Always Loved You
• Intermezzo: A Love Story
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• The Bells of St. Mary's

Technicolor Dreams is a film club in Orange County, California that I created in April 2021. The club meets twice a month to screen and discuss films. 

This is a list of all the films we've shown organized chronologically.

• The River
• Black Orpheus
• Paris, Texas

Collections:
Chantal Akerman in the Seventies
by Brakhage volume 1
by Brakhage volume 2

• Days of Heaven
• Paris, Texas
• Cameraperson
• Persona
• Trouble in Paradise
• My Darling Clementine
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
• L'Argent
• Monsieur Verdoux
• The River

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

sorry no Ingmar Bergman allowed

• Secrets
• L'Atalante
• Make Way for Tomorrow
• Angel
• The Awful Truth
• Made for Each Other
• Intermezzo: A Love Story
• His Girl Friday
• Stormy Waters
• The Impatient Years

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

trashy but slaps
5 star films

• Wild Things
• 13 Going on 30
• John Wick
• Resident Evil
• Spider-Man 2
• The Cat in the Hat
• Ratatouille
• The Devil's Advocate

Films with the best recitations of the “Our Father” prayer

1. The First Legion
2. Johnny Belinda
3. The Clock
4. Tabu

1. Carousel
2. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
3. One from the Heart
4. Brigadoon
5. Carmen Jones
6. Golden Eighties
7. Season of the Devil
8. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
9. Eden
10. Climax

Rhythmically, trains just work in cinema. The perfunctory nature of time. So empathetic to the woes and romances that confine human life.

• The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
• Brief Encounter

  sad trains

• Monsieur Verdoux

  best train film imo

• Strangers on a Train
• The Train

  2nd best train film

• Doctor Zhivago

  more sad trains

• A Cop

  THE TRAIN SCENE IN THIS IS SO GOOD AND ACTION PACKED

• No Data Plan
• The Clock
• Summertime

The People vs. Gary Cooper 

Cooper plays men of purity, hope, and dignity. Everyone else is weak, selfish, and evil.

(I could watch Cooper defend himself in court for hours)

• The Fountainhead
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Good Sam
• The Wedding Night

Faithful by Lamberto V. Avellana 
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• Blessings of the Land

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• Manila in the Claws of Light
• Insiang
• Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos
• Manila by Night
• Himala
• Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song
• Vapor Trail (Clark)
• The Dance of Two Left Feet
• Captive

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Mentioned in Timothy Corrigan’s The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker

• A Corner in Wheat
• Sicko
• The Fog of War
• À propos de Nice
• Land Without Bread
• The All-Around Reduced Personality: Redupers
• The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
• A Zed & Two Noughts
• The Belly of an Architect
• Letter from Siberia

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

watch these if you’re feeling down and need a good laugh

• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
• The House That Jack Built
• A Clockwork Orange
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Death Proof