In an industry full of bland, empty blockbuster filmmaking that feel like they were created in a executive office, having unique, ambitious filmmakers like Baz Luhrmann (along with The Wachowski Sisters) bringing their own personal visions to the silver screen is now more important than ever. Most of Luhrmann's films attempt to combine the techniques and mythologies of stage theatrics and motion pictures while contorting these standard conventions to fit the medium of film; which Ana Kristel Gamboa calls in…
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Cloud Atlas 2012
Within the universe of Cloud Atlas, experiences and stories of past lives (in the boundaries of spoken, written, visual, and auditory media) impact the future in positive or negative means. Race, gender, and sexuality are only illusions; distractions of our main purpose. Instead, each individual life are tightly bound together by relationships and encounters with one another. As characters create missteps for themselves and slowly attempt to redeem each fault throughout their existence, the film opens itself up more and…
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Dancer in the Dark 2000
Joker: Folie à Deux reminded me of the scenes I had seen from this and realized that I haven't watched this front to back. While this film is a much more cohesive piece in comparison, I forgot how much Lars is NOT FOR ME.
I love the main concept of both of these films; desperate, broken people finding their escape through song and dance. Deconstructing the genre's inherent opiumism and earnestness. Both Coppola's One from the Heart and Herbert Ross'…
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Sleeping with Other People 2015
Next to Frances Ha, I can't think of another film that uses David Bowie's Modern Love as well as its done here.
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