Favorite films

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  Close Your Eyes 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Hitler: A Film from Germany 1977

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2024

  Monumental, rapturous, boring (often intentionally so) and above all else incredibly dense and difficult. I'm no stranger to long films, but this one is almost certainly the most distant and punishing "narrative" film I've ever seen. Even Out 1, with its endless sequences of theater rehearsals and improvisations, still maintains a connection to a somewhat traditional filmic rhythm with its camera movements and editing. Hitler, with its incredibly lengthy sequences (shot on sound stages with reverse projection that heighten the…

Popular reviews

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  Contempt 1963

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Oct 2019 1

  The struggle between high and low art, producer and director, and a husband and wife, shot in magnificent cinemascope by Coutard. Blended with highly personal elements in classic Godard style, Camille dons a wig highly similar to Anna Karina's hairstyle in Vivre Sa Vie, as Godard and Karina were going through troubles within their marriage. As always, Contempt can be highly alienating to the viewer at times, none more tender and brilliant than the argument between Paul and Camille in…

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  Satantango 1994

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2019

  Undoubtedly one of the best and most challenging films I've ever seen. No film has made me laugh of pure joy or cry of pure desolation in the same hour like this one has, or demanded my attention for ten minutes without a cut or a hint of dialogue. Tarr has made something truly incredible with this film, and a film that I will think of for a long time, haunted by its bells that ring for an eternity.