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  Megalopolis 2024

  Watched 05 Oct 2024

  There’s still so much to accomplish, but is there time?

  Francis Ford Coppola is a genius. A visionary moved by the sheer desire to create, no matter the cost. In that sense, he is the last of his kind and we just witnessed his final work.

  I admire Francis, a lot. A director so committed to his art that if he had to mortgage his own house to finish it, he would. His dream with American Zoetrope was nothing short…

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  Possession 1981

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Sep 2024

  I can't exist by myself because I'm afraid of myself, because I'm the maker of my own evil.
  
  Confined Madness. Everywhere we look there it is… in our government, relationships, in the mirror… creeping, growing but ever evolving, waiting for the right trigger to make us embrace it’s dark veil.

  Zulawski films in an ideologically, economically and physically divided Cold War Germany. The imposing, stoic but gradually decaying Wall visually representing the authoritarian opression of man by man. The second…