Francis Ford Coppola's decades in the making passion project is a fascinating and frustrating film. It contains such maximalist ambition, campy excess, and total lack of inhibition that it is not easily digestible by audiences who are used to being told what to look for. It left me puzzled, but the film also has undeniable staying power. Flawed as it may be, it is unlike any other movie being made at the moment. By not caring about alienating his viewers…
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My Neighbor Totoro 1988
There's a lot of nostalgia attached to this one. It was part of a collection of recorded films on VHS that my parents kept in the house. My sister and I used to trawl through them secretly before my parents came home and once stumbled upon Totoro. The movie instantly cast a spell on us. It became the one tape we watched repeatedly and my first formative cinematic experience, an intrinsic part of my childhood.
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Behindert 1974
A hypnotic and claustrophobic, but spiritual experience. This film is made up almost entirely of close-ups and the dialogue is mostly replaced by a drone soundtrack. Its fragementary images seem to document the subjective experience of a disabled protagonist and the growth and decay of his relationship. The cheap and grainy image stock, that brings to mind home movies, only emphasizes the intimacy of the images. Dwoskin is more interested in the mysterious and impenetrable beauty of the human face,…
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Ali 2001
Time often flies by when watching a Michael Mann film. Starting from the great opening montage we see ten years of Muhammad Ali's life, but it feels more like a feverish rush, a hallucination. Mann is one the most purely cinematic filmmakers working today. His compositions and editing, the use of light and color give Ali a tremendous musicality and vitality. It really feels like there is a life lived inside this film. But for all his energy Mann is…
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