I watched On the Silver Globe a few weeks ago and complained that the characters felt like mouth pieces for ideas, ranting and monologuing at each other without any realistic interaction. When a performance feels so distant from reality it makes it difficult to form any kind of emotional connection with. This felt like the total opposite to me. Cassavetes sacrifices some elements of the form in order to bring out rawer performances that are more true to life. As…
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One-Eyed Jacks 1961
One Eyed Jacks is the directorial debut of Marlon Brando. Given he never directed again and it comes at the beginning of a fairly weak period for him I was surprised how enjoyable I found this. The cinematography was particularly strong but perhaps the credit belongs to cinematographer Charles Lang, who had been working regularly since the 1930s. The framing and composition is really stunning, particularly early on in the Sonora desert and as we travel up and down the…
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Metropolis 1927
Every bit as influential, groundbreaking and spectacular as everyone told you. There's some weird story beats and plot contrivances that made me knock the rating down slightly but it's par for the course for movies of this period.
It actually has a bit more thematic depth than I was anticipating and you can look at it from a few perspectives. The religious stuff is quite interesting too. I watched the 148 minute version but there's also a 3 hour cut I might check out one day.
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