Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Lost in Translation: Loneliness as a Secret Language
Some stories are told through words, others through gestures, and some—the most fragile, the most human—are written in silence. Lost in Translation is not a film about love in the traditional sense, nor is it about loss. It is a story of transition, of those suspended moments in time when life places us in front of someone who, without meaning to, reflects us with a clarity we had never known before. Sofia…
To Die For": The Obsession with Being Seen and the Banality of Evil
Suzanne Stone is not a classic monster. She’s not a knife-wielding killer or a criminal mastermind with intricate plans. Her real violence is far more subtle, more contemporary: an obsession with fame, an addiction to seeing herself reflected on the screen. Gus Van Sant doesn’t just give us a thriller—he hands us an uncomfortable mirror reflecting a society that values image over substance, ambition over morality.
Nicole…
Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers, parades itself as a gothic masterpiece but quickly reveals its true nature: a vanity project dressed up as profound cinema. Eggers seems more obsessed with cramming every frame full of visual grandeur than with telling a story that actually resonates. Sure, the film is gorgeous, but beauty without purpose becomes dull very quickly.
Bill Skarsgård has the presence to embody Count Orlok, but his performance feels stuck on the surface. He’s a monster designed to…