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  • Lessons of Darkness

    ★★★★

  • Family Romance, LLC

    ★★★★

  • Rashomon

    ★★★★★

  • Yojimbo

    ★★★★★

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  • Lessons of Darkness

    Lessons of Darkness

    ★★★★

    War is hell. This film is an experience. It minimizes narrative and maximizes the aesthetic aspect of the destruction of war and hell on earth. The pairing of classical music with these long aerial shots of the devastation of the blackened oil fields and their ever-burning fires is startlingly beautiful and horrific. This is why I am a fan of Werner Herzog.

  • Family Romance, LLC

    Family Romance, LLC

    ★★★★

    This is one of those movies where you don't know where it's going in the beginning but by the end it all ties together nicely and with poignancy. The Q&A at the end of the film has an apt observation from the director Herzog himself, that the 21st century, with its vastly developed technology dedicated to communication and global connectedness, is paradoxically a time of "many solitudes." This the milieu out of which Family Romance, LLC arises. You can hire…

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  • Sound of Metal

    Sound of Metal

    ★★★★★

    This is my second and a half time watching this film. I watched half of it again after a year off from my first time at my friend Maxime's house and then I decided I had to watch it all again from the beginning. The moments, the melody of the film (even the ones I've seen before) were worth watching AGAIN. The improvisational nature of the scenes portraying the two main characters' relationship, when they're dancing together and later driving…

  • Drive My Car

    Drive My Car

    ★★★★

    There were some beautiful moments in this filim. I'll watch it again some time soon.