Number of times seen: at least 8.
-"Do women have a role to play in modern society?"
-"Yes, if they're charming and wear striped dresses and dark glasses."
"Breathless" changed my life and my attitude towards art more than any other film I can think of. The other (actually likelier) possibility was that it was "A Hard Day's Night", and I suppose this kinship is no coincidence. That film in just four years was so strongly a legacy of the…
I do immensely admire this was even made. Completely unintentionally(and yet planned from the beginning) it managed to patch up what Bakshi was missing. An uncomfortable decision that makes a lot of people sour on this interpretation of "Return of the King" is the very framing device and the *truly* perplexing and non-linear starting procedure for it, like it seems to be designed for maximum unappeal and like it intentionally wanted to drive away audiences. It does take a solid…
An important thing to keep in mind is that this film was animated by a crew of only 16 people in just two years, who are all comic artists and designers around Belgrade, and half of which I'm buddies with(it's a small country). I know Aleksa Gajić personally and he's sweetly enthusiastic about his film, personally working on over a third of all the cels and backgrounds. His DIY approach cemented this movie as a passion project and an experiment…
I'm a Serb living in Belgrade. "Serbian Epics" provides a snapshot of a very, very confused people in 1992, who were not equipped to comb through their history of myths and half-truths, and deal with the cold echo left by President Tito's voice of reassurance.
Although it simmers a scent of a good, filthy, nationalist propaganda film, "Serbian Epics", is in fact a parody of one. It shows Serbian soldiers in the Bosnian war, being machismo hardasses that grow gigantic…
