Bernardo Villela

Bernardo Villela

Favorite films

  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Citizen Kane
  • Satantango
  • The Annunciation

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  • Death of a Unicorn

  • Sweet Dreams

  • A Leap in the Dark

  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip

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  • Talk to Me

    Talk to Me

    The ending of this film is brilliant. There was a section of it around the third act where it felt like the film was lost when it was only supposed to be the protagonist. It'll definitely be worth a re-watch some point especially if there's a directors' cut.

  • Insidious: The Red Door

    Insidious: The Red Door

    Elevates the series by doing the work of a legacy sequel without as long a layoff and excessive retcons.

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  • Eddie Izzard: Dress to Circle

    Eddie Izzard: Dress to Circle

    This one I never saw because his shows in French were always kind of mythical to me. After seeing clips of his first attempts at shows in France, this is like night and day.

    And, of course, he throws in a gag about the Queen that’s basically an excuse for him to conjugate a vern, so it’s brilliant for those who learned French as a second language.

  • The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam

    The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam

    After 4 sittings to trudge through this one, in about 24 hours, I’m actually glad Criterion’s box set has a 2nd doc on the ‘28 games.

     While on occasion there’s some great slow-mo footage or amazing camera angle, the film lingered on certain events on certain events without judicious editing. Similarly there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to when title cards would up the suspense and when they told you the result right before you saw it. Yet,…