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Birds, Orphans and Fools 1969
This uniquely chaotic and great Slovakian film could only have come from the Czech New Wave. Despite the underlining feeling of sadness and decay in the ravaged post-war setting, the film and its characters are so brimming with life that it was impossible for me not to love this. Like other films of the movement, the film embraces a liberatory spirit that still feels willfully subversive and exciting. Turning into a huge fan of Magda Vášáryová following this and Marketa Lazarova. For my tastes, a superior Daisies (1966).
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Kiss Me Deadly 1955
Speechless. The most sinister and mysterious noir I've seen, and one of the most original. It begins with a dazed woman, freshly escaped from a mental institution, running down a dark highway. It proceeds in somewhat standard noir fashion for a while, becoming increasingly convoluted and heaping on ominous and crpytic threats. It then becomes like Lost Highway or something. It's so easy to see how much Lynch must've been inspired by this, and yes, Pulp Fiction, the Big Lebowski and Raiders of the Lost Ark probably borrowed certain key elements that will remain unspoken. And then that ending, which I was not prepared for, fuck.
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