tiago

Favorite films

  • Out 1
  • Lost, Lost, Lost
  • Le Gai Savoir
  • Diwan

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  • Born in Flames

    ★★★½

  • The Wild Frontier

  • The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland

    ★★★★★

  • Watcher

    ★★½

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D.O.A.

1980

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I wanna be Anarchy!
the only way to be.

- sings a wide-eyed Johnny Rotten at the top of his lungs, and the crowd is totally loving it.

So, destruction is a necessity. Teenagers and all kinds of freaks part of the genesis of the punk scene appear on screen, possessed by wild energy, always an unpredictable act.

While inside dusty offices, some really uptight british old folks (were there any other kind?) go on and on about the malefices…

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New Rose Hotel

1998

★★★★★ Liked 5

Images and sounds organized in enigmatic form as to create intense sensory experience, New Rose Hotel can be seen as what truly is modern about contemporary cinema.

Not only because in 1998 Abel Ferrara was already breaking a film in two pieces, creating a mirror structure where each image can contradict its opposite identical side - and being wrongly accused of slopiness by critics for doing so! - a similar path other filmmakers would take years after: Quentin Tarantino in…

The Barefoot Contessa

1954

★★★★★ Liked Added

Really unusual, I think. Not so much concerned with classic structure, plays more like an accumulation of acts in the spectacle of social life: speeches, entrances and exits, always on the verge of a restart, even the same scene, everything can be triggered by the magic of meeting someone, a new beginning. A compendium of personal impressions reveals itself full of poetic moments that make for so much of great cinema: bits of wisdom that can only be shared between two friends, an exchange of looks across the field or a beautiful face bathed in moonlight.

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