Got to watch this for free at a screening at the University of Miami cinema. I love Lynch’s focus on the simple side of American life and Americana: the diner, the old men hanging out in the appliance store, the friendly stranger who lets you camp on their lawn. The simplicity of Alvin Straight and his kind of life are subtly contrasted with the sanitized space of the doctor’s office and the big rigs hauling by him on the highway.…
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Bicycle Thieves 1948
Bicycle Thieves is proof you don’t need to have a star-studded cast, or stars at all, to have an excellent film
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Eternity and a Day 1998
Trapped between the haunting ghosts of the past and the inevitability of our death, it is up to us to make the most of the time we have
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Andrei Rublev 1966
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Need to revisit as I do with all other Tarkovsky films but found it beautiful nonetheless. Especially liked the dialogue with Theophanes the Greek about the nature of religion in a godless world. In a way this scene and the passion montage are a microcosm of the whole film, for it showcases Rublev’s (Tarkovskys) view of the ultimately redemptive nature of suffering and the purpose of Christianity. When rublev says you look into the eyes of another you feel communion, this is exactly what happens when he realizes Boris’ work on the church bell is able to inspire the peasants and breaks his vow of silence.
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