I think sometimes people forget, or maybe never considered, that film is allowed to be solely about artistic expression and nothing else. A lot of the things people say a film needs may really just be things that they, as conditioned viewers, may be taking for granted or are overzealously exaggerating to be some sort of prerequisite to the expression. This film needs none of those things to be realized in its vision; and it is a realized vision, through…
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Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro 1979
Really doesn’t show off, and yet does an amazing job. I feel like there’s so much professional restraint and enlightened creativity
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The Florida Project 2017
I have questions about the ending, but I think even without them being answered, it’s the perfect ending.
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Samurai Rebellion 1967
So it goes. My viewing of Kobayashi’s films continue. And this one is special.
To see his return to the Jidaigeki genre was something I’ve been waiting for ever since my initial viewing of Harakiri about 2.5 years ago. I wondered how he could possibly think to make another film like that, wondering how he could manage to have it match up with such a crowning achievement of the genre like Harakiri. But now I think I understand.
Harakiri was a film…
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The Matrix 1999
My mom requested to watch this for the first time on her 62nd birthday. We then smoked weed and discussed the trans metaphors. What a wonderful person.
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