Tokyo Story is an incredibly restrained, controlled film – the camera moves just once throughout the entire 2+ hours, the composition of each shot is meticulously crafted, each conversation is edited in the exact same way. Ozu maintains a remarkable concentration, there is nothing incidental about any image he presents, it lacks any form of superficiality – Tokyo Story never attempts to tell you what to feel, its means of expression are never forced. It shifts away from archetypical emotional…
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Pierrot le Fou 1965
*End of 5th paragraph contains a spoiler*
Unlike my Solaris review, one crowded with literary quotes and assuming a more ‘official’ perspective on the film, this one will be more scrambled, subjective, and unique – I’m more focused on writing my honest thoughts than I am trying to construct a well-thought-out argument. (Mostly because, my knowledge regarding Godard is nowhere near that of Tarkovsky).
There are parts of this film which work incredibly well for me, and parts which don’t.…
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Napoleon 1927
Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) isn't quite a perfect film, though it possibly is cinema's purest and most psychedelic epic ever put to screen. The only two (pretty mild) issues I have are that i thought parts of Act II dragged for too long, and that certain war scenes became mildly repetitive and could have been cut down - in an entire 5-and-a-half hour film, that isn't much to improve on, and i hardly think i paused this a single time…
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Longlegs 2024
second half was so stupid. i HATE when these sorts of movies become almost supernatural same reason i dislike Jordan Peele lots . that second half ticked off every stereotype it could
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Solaris 1972
***One Of My All Time Favourites***
Strange that, essentially, the main reason Tarkovsky didn't see Solaris as a success was because he thought its Sci-Fi elements were too prominent, distracting the viewer from the film's purpose. He regretted his use of "the rockets and space stations”, believing “the film would have stood out more vividly and boldly had we managed to dispense with these things altogether.” I find it strange because I don't agree at all - clearly it was different…
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