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News from Home 1976
Genuinely nerve wracking and terrifying. I miss the friends I can no longer reach to.
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975
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Absolutely disgusting, but like any piece of art, there is meaning to be found in the absolute foul depths of the human psyche. The background behind the film is what really bolsters this film for me however. Pasolini managed to create a trilogy of films that celebrate homosexuality and sexual fluidity, only to come out with a film that completely demonizes the concepts he promoted before and even compares them to fascism. Salo was originally supposed to be as the…
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Brother 2 2000
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Another great piece from Balaban, and another stunning performance by Bodrov Jr., how do you follow up a crime thriller the encapsulates the anxiousness of post Soviet generation? Go international.
With an exponentially larger budget than the previous film, this one tries to emulate the Hollywood blockbusters that have been seeping into Russia following the collapse of the USSR, and instead points the camera around at Americans portraying them as the aggressors and their shortsighted views as a result of…
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