Nino Rota’s music is truly the music of memory.
Always touched by the way Fellini can capture the poetry of everything you’ve just seen in a final shot.
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Nights of Cabiria 1957
Soulful, endearing cinema - with Cabiria embodying a defiant optimism for a post-war nation - feels so timeless and needed. Loved it with all my heart.
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Taipei Story 1985
Commercial products are lifted to the same level of pageantry and spectacle as political banners and leaders. American culture is imported and along with it, the socioeconomics whose innate byproduct is the malaise felt by our main characters.
The characters, one hopeful for a future and one nostalgic for the past, are both rendered expendable commodities under the burgeoning capitalism: Chin is pushed into unemployment as her position at her old company becomes obsolete under its acquisition; in a more…
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My Dinner with Andre 1981
Once in a good while I feel compelled to revisit this. After we get through Andre’s initial anecdotes, and Wallace, no longer just passively and politely accommodating conversation, initiates a dialectic from a place of humanism against Andre’s bourgeois excursions in search of enlightenment, there’s so many moments of such moving directness. Considering this was made 44 years ago, the discussions on the general ironic detachment in interpersonal relations and expression and the purpose and nature of art (as well…
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