I watched a 3hr+ fan edit of the Blue Rose edit. I hadn’t seen Fire Walk with Me in nearly 20 years but so much of it was scorched into my memory. This completely overwhelmed me tonight. Sheryl Lee’s performance is one of the greatest I’ve ever seen.
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The Duellists 1977
I think I hate Harvey Keitel. A totally empty film. One of the worst scores I’ve ever heard. Well done to the DOP and location scouts though.
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The Four Times 2010
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Michelangelo Frammartino has accused traditional cinema of being manipulative in its use of musical score to provoke superficial, shallow emotional responses in the viewer. Swelling strings at the pivotal moments of Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg films have become fodder for parody, but some will defend them as being inextricable from their respective genres. I don't believe this criticism is being aimed at the big blockbusters, however, as Frammartino probably considers it a separate art form to art cinema, more…
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia hinges on a series of fascinating conversations which range from seemingly mundane worries, casual philosophising, or petty bickering over yoghurt, all wonderfully written with awareness, compassion and restraint. I could've watched ten hours more of this brilliant film's first two acts (not that the third act wasn't great in its own way).
In an odd way, I felt as if I too was part of the journey; something, I think, Ceylan…
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