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Rumble Fish 1983
In the midst of the varicolored and flamboyant films of the 80s lies Rumble Fish, a pensive, otherworldly ride of monochromatic poetry. It sticks out like a sore thumb - and I love it.
Coppola's 1983 film is an experience one can never quite prepare for. It's a strange and brooding space that only the most introspective of filmgoers will easily settle into. Rich in symbolism and existential dread, there is something haunting in the film-noir-esque atmosphere, with all its…
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Cold War 2018
Pawel Pawlikowski and Łukasz Żal have done it again. Just as in Ida, every frame is a mesmeric work of art, and it's wonderfully apparent that Pawlikowski has found his mode.
This breathtaking tale of love found, love lost, and love regained could not have been in better hands than Kulig and Kot. The couple's compelling onscreen presence and their tumultuous passion light up the screen. Joanna Kulig plays Zula's whimsical restlessness to perfection, while Tomasz Kot's Wiktor, appearing ever…
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The Haunting 1963
Owing to my love for immersive atmosphere in cinema, a film's efficacy is contingent on the way it changes the world around me as I watch, and the way it leaves me long after the final credits have rolled. In the case of Robert Wise's The Haunting, no other work of its kind has so well succeeded in evoking that inexplicable dread one feels when faced with the unknown. The labyrinthine Hill House, garish and grotesquely archaic, is a place…
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