I'm amazed once again by the elegance and delicate empathy of Satyajit Ray's filmmaking. Take the sequence where Charulata finally summons up the courage to write. First, a dot of ink on an empty page, promising and terrifying. A close-up of Charulata, deep in thought (as played by Madhabi Mukherjee, so wonderful here and in The Big City, it's an electric moment free of any self-consciousness - she fully inhabits Charulata). She scratches out a few titles in Bengali, before…
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Journey to Italy 1954
Ingrid Bergman exploring the museum is me watching Journey to Italy, astonished by the lively immediacy of art from the past, not at all "ascetic images" but expressive of their time and reaching into my own.
I know some feel the ending is rushed and unearned, and everyone has a right to their own opinion and all that, but uhhh they're wrong. All the external bitterness, the private revelations and yearnings, the insecurity and discovery of being in a new…
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Desperate Living 1977
Too successfully repulsive for me, honestly. I admire the deranged commitment to the bit more than I actually enjoy all the in-your-face grossness.
That said, I'm very glad I've seen Desperate Living once. Even more politically direct than usual for Waters, and it's sometimes hysterical. Mink Stole's meltdown is legendary.
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Three Wishes for Cinderella 1973
Something so earthy and charming about Eastern / Central European fairy tales.
The first thing this Cinderella says to the prince is "when hell freezes over, asshole!" Disney could never!
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Hen Hop 1942
I’d like to imagine that Norman McLaren was feverishly inspired to make this after a frenzied night of line dancing and the traumatic sight of a chicken running around with its head cut off, but according to Letterboxd, “to make Hen Hop McLaren spent days in a chicken coop to capture what he called ‘the spirit of henliness.’”
I’m in love with a dead Canadian cartoonist
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