Granimal

Granimal

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Andrei Rublev
  • Persona
  • Ran

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  • Sing Sing

  • Nostalgia

    ★★★★★

  • Uncovering The Naked City

  • Persona

    ★★★★★

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  • Nostalgia

    Nostalgia

    ★★★★★

    Society seeks stability, the artist—infinity.

    We have driven ourselves sane. In all our sterility and complicity we have lost the ability to express ourselves truthfully. The interconnected cultures and collective memory of our past crumble like sand as we raise monuments to momentary profit and spectacular, but fake imagery. We have lost touch with the real and far more fascinating imagery that envelopes our sleep and haunts our monotonous waking lives. All the great artists of our era are stifled…

  • Andrei Rublev

    Andrei Rublev

    ★★★★★

    Again and again man correlates himself with the world, racked with longing to acquire, and become one with, the ideal which lies outside him, which he apprehends as some kind of intuitively sensed first principle. The unattainability of that becoming one, the inadequacy of his own 'I,' is the perpetual source of man's dissatisfaction and pain.

    Although works of art can live and prosper much longer than those who create them, time grants mercy to no thing or organism. What…

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  • Mirror

    Mirror

    ★★★★★

    They're not hurrying anywhere while we rush around in a great fuss spouting our banalities.

    When were you first made aware of yourself? Not of your tangible form and physical capabilities, but of the fleeting dialogue inside of your head. For me, the realization came in an adolescent moment of great distress. Angered by something I no longer remember, I shut myself in my own room and began searching for an emotional release. I found it in my favorite book—an…

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    ★★★

    This one is difficult to review, because I want to say I loved it. Cinematographically it is revolutionary for it's expressive use of tracking shots and double exposure. The atmosphere is crafted exquisitely in each different setting via masterful mise en scène. And it is interesting to see attractions era influence sprinkled throughout a narratively and filmically classical film. However, the script made it difficult for me to enjoy much of the beauty and charm of Sunrise.

    From the beginning,…

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