My eighth by Chor Yuen and the tenth film in Arrow’s ShawScope Vol 3 boxset. A lot of the ones in this boxset that are from Chor Yuen have super complicated plots, and this one is no exception - Ti Lung is a guy who gave up the love of his life 10 years prior, but now an evil bandit called the Plum Blossom Bandit is back, and everybody seems to think it’s him, so he has to prove his…
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Viva l'Italia! 1961
My tenth by Roberto Rossellini, a historical epic about the campaign of Giussepe Garibaldi and his thousand men in the 1860s to unify Italy as one country instead of the 8 states it was at the time. I really don’t know much about Italian history so I have to basically take this film’s word for everything - I feel like that might have hindered my enjoyment of it just a bit, as it rarely stops to explain who anybody is.…
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Uncut Gems 2019
My second film by the Safdie Brothers.
To begin with, from the two that I've seen and from what I read about their other films, it's evident that as directors, the Safdies produce films with one very particular energy to them, which is something akin to an almost constant heightened sense of extreme anxiety. This is accomplished by having their protagonists be impulsive and short-sighed to an extreme fault - it's an uncomfortable person to have to accompany for the…Translated from by -
The Irishman 2019
My tenth film by Martin Scorsese. I think this marks the longest film I've ever seen in a theater and the first time I've gone to see a movie made for a streaming service in theaters instead of just watching it at home.
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