Mike LaPenta

Mike LaPenta Pro

Favorite films

  • Phoenix
  • Trouble in Paradise
  • Old Joy
  • Autumn Sonata

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  • Rolling Thunder

    ★★★½

  • Brain Damage

    ★★★★

  • Magazine Dreams

    ★★★

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc

    ★★★★★

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  • Rolling Thunder

    Rolling Thunder

    ★★★½

    You can see how much influence this had on Tarantino, because the end is almost exactly like Django Unchained. Devane’s performance is really the center of this, just a husk of a man who only knows how to survive.

  • Brain Damage

    Brain Damage

    ★★★★

    Everyone has that friend that’s really fun to blackout with until you come to and realize they’re eating someone’s brains.

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  • The Hunt

    The Hunt

    Great acting, beautifully shot, with a glorious message to never believe anyone who says they’ve been sexually assaulted, ESPECIALLY if they’re kids. 

    I really thought this would get into possibly Klara being molested but the trauma causing her to not know exactly who did it. This could also let the movie explore how false accusations still hurt people, while not perpetuating the myth that all accusers secretly are lying and usuing the accusation to get what they want. Then they…

  • Young Törless

    Young Törless

    ★★★½

    This is like an anti-coming of age film. A child goes on a path to realize that there’s really no change in humanity from birth to death, and turns his back on society. It’s a pretty bleak, yet a stern warning to seek out the small changes creeping in to our lives that deteriorate our human rights.