“You’ll forget everything in time. Or at least you should”.
Thirteenth viewing. Wouldn’t have been inspired to make Whispers of Eternal Thought, without this film. The delivery room, where the isolated, nihilistic protagonist is surrounded by flying pieces of paper, as he confronts a tragic past - I promise it was a homage. How Do You Live?
“Unless you love, your life will flash by”.
My favorite film. Nothing quite like it. It is funny how I am still discovering new things about the film. Utter magic. I felt myself in some kind of trance that was never once broken. It was like watching a miracle unfold. It is some of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen.
35mm film screening. The Tree of Life.
The best film of the year so far. Sexy, deadly, dry, and sleek in a way that winks at its audience for paying attention and focusing on little character interactions and catching on the subtler themes, that are hiding within these horny, sad people. That is cinema baby.
Kind of funny that I started something of a Steven Soderbergh marathon with his latter two Oceans films and this. Slick and playfully tense, that culminates into a thrilling finale. Oddly humorous, but in that monotone and dry way that only Soderbergh can pull off. What a fucking blast. Black Bag.
A meditative epic on greed, family, privilege, and racial tensions, told on the grandest scale possible. An existential horror on racial integration and of the twentieth century (as well as its technological marvels)
Scorsese’s most important film and perhaps one of his greatest works. Definitely playing a lot with surrealism and the kind of horror that takes its time to settle in. Those three and a half hours slowly become engrained into your mind and it is worth it for the ending alone.
Lily Gladstone must have Oscar gold. Rewatch definitely needed. An achievement on the highest level. Cinema at its finest. Well done, maestro.
The second coming of Christ. A religious experience. It is a miracle of how much this film came together when it could have so easily buckled under all of that weight and Frank Herbert’s legacy. So much going on regarding politics, religion, messianic figures, and faith, but it is all handled so beautifully and gracefully, with a love story as the main framework of the narrative.
Puts almost all of science fiction to shame. Up there with one of…
