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My Neighbor Totoro 1988
It is with good reason that Hayao Miyazaki is considered one of the greatest ever animation directors. His body of work is unrivaled and has enchanted audiences, young and old, for four decades. My Neighbour Totoro is not only his most famous film but also his most personal and greatest achievement as a director.
The film doesn’t feature a grand sweeping story or a plot with great peril, instead the movie is more a reflection of tiny events that envelop…
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A Matter of Life and Death 1946
What is life without love?
This is a question at the heart of Powell and Pressburger’s classic, A Matter of Life and Death: a movie I adore unreservedly and the only fitting choice for my 100th film of the December Challenge.
It seems to me that your first introduction to the work of The Archers often ends up becoming a lifelong favourite. Their films, particularly those made between ‘43-’48, are magical and transformative experiences that open your eyes to a…
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
For some supplementary reading please check out this excellent analysis by Tim Kreider that has helped reinforce and inform my understanding of the film over the years.
Stanley Kubrick’s final film is a misunderstood masterpiece. This is not the erotic thriller the critics and marketing department described, instead this is a story of moral corruption, money and power told through the male paranoia and jealousy-fuelled nightmare of Bill, a wealthy Manhattan doctor. Eyes Wide Shut is a film less about…
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Synecdoche, New York 2008
**NOTE: This is less a review and more a rough analysis of the film so please do not read if you have yet to see the film.**
I think this will be Kaufman's Eyes Wide Shut in that it won't get the recognition it truly deserves for at least ten years. Synecdoche, New York is pure cinema. No other medium could possibly attempt to tell this story. It would be largely incomprehensible as a novel and too bogged down in…
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