Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Well, that was awkward
Watching this back to back with Raging Bull makes you feel right at home. And Jake LaMotta is probably the worst person you want to be associated with when it comes to relationships.
Sofia Coppola gets her point across in excruciating detail. There came a point the movie needed another focus, though. And that brief karate instructor scene was not it. We needed to see more of that life of her own he was losing her…
They meet 12 years later and have the most basic conversations. Then they meet another 12 years later and have the same basic-ass conversations again!
The most shocking thing was name dropping Eternal Sunshine in this. Like, have you even seen the movie?
There's something fascinating about a biopic where the person portrayed is so utterly dislikeable.
I'm not entirely sure that was the intention though. Anything great or admirable about Bernstein is only mentioned in passing. Except for the grandiose conduction sequence, where the filmmakers remembered they had to show him do something of note.
The decision to tell the story in different aspect ratios was neat. The scenes in black and white were shot particularly great. The film features some shoddy…