Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Wet, dirty alleys immersed in the hopeless blackness of a never-ending night. Corruption, crime. Noir. There's the outsider detective with a case to solve and you won't believe how excited I was to finally see this in The Batman. More of this please.
This isn't a quick dopamine kick into a fake plastic world with tons of cheap CGI, but rather a slowly unfolding ride into Gotham's corrupt underworld that feels honest, desolate and suprisingly real. I can see bits…
Took me ages to finally watch this Satoshi Kon classic. Wasn't in time for christmas, but at least still close. "Tokyo Godfathers" is truly marvelous. A lot of suprises, the right amount of drama, fun but also message & critique. One selfless act fuels the next. <3
They wanted to show what war is. They succeeded.
No Hollywood, no animal rights groups, human rights organizations or other guidelines that protect or mitigate any actors or representations in any way like today. You may think what you want about that, but for precisely this reason it is not just another well made film about the abysses of war. The boundaries between reality and drama blur to something that becomes its own reality to convey its core message, a…