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It is a inmensly influential german expressionism film for both it's genre and cinema. A lyrical fable version of Goethe's famous story, where Mephisto and an angel gamble with Faust's spirit, the entire film has an aura of delicate beauty, often eerie, fiendish imagery, like satanic birds, hooded men, flying horsemen and Caligari-inspired exteriors fill the screen. When Faust signs his contract, the words burn themselves into the page as Mephisto dips his feather pen in Faust's vein. A…
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Michael Mann’s career as a feature filmmaker consists of projects infused with a single unchanging contradiction: his are films marked by their realism yet brimming with style. By definition, style is an ornamentation of reality, and this aesthetic conflict has never been ideologically resolved by Mann yet it is the balance of these components that makes many of his films great. Amid Mann’s occasional failures, the normally incongruous pairing of style and realism delivers the kind of motion picture…
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A brilliantly layered examination of a man throughout all of his incredible accomplishments and fundamental flaws, what a true character study should be.
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is an epic modern cinematic achievement in filmmaking, very few directors have broken the barrels in recreating the batshit insane scenary, effects and storytelling techniques like Christopher Nolan did here. We are facing what is possibly one of the most important films of all time, the entire message of the filma is sending…
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I love marvel movies when they aren't made by the fucking MCU.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse not only builds upon the brilliance of its predecessor but takes the scope of it to a whole new level. The film plunges audiences into an exhilarating journey across dimensions, where familiar characters and new faces collide in a visually stunning and emotionally resonant narrative. One of the standout aspects of this film is its ability to strike a delicate balance between paying…
