cinema as a form of spiritual exorcism
films in my diary/watched date list are only the ones i saw theatrically
too personal to review here :-(
letterboxd private accounts soon please!!! or like a close friends review function or something
this movie is so annoying because its like one of the most beautiful things ever put to celluloid but its also one of the most repulsive and repetitive stories about a snivelling annoying poet who drowns in misery and "omg why am i not loved" so many times i almost wish he actually died in the train crash
2nd worst crowd i've ever had the misfortune to sit in (the worst still has to be the 35mm star wars marathon…
i am so, so conflicted about this film.
for every gorgeous jawdropping shot or sequence (especially the first half), there's 20 of the most banal, horrid filmmaking examples on display a couple minutes later. it's just such a narratively bland and unthoughtful film, with the worst second half I've seen.
but at the same time, there's some incredible filmmaking on display here. the sequence with nature shots and the photography along with the poetry near the beginning was incredible. the…
a film that's full of good ideas, but unfortunately gets tonally muddled and side shifts into a hour-long philisophical discussion that has nothing to do with the first 90 minutes. could've just been a book (and i don't like it when films could've just been a book and don't benefit from the visual medium).
last 30 minutes is also incredibly frustrating. i can't tell if nuri bilge is addressing the problematic nature of the pedophilic character by almost doing a…