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Heat 1995
Mmhm. I love when a noir truly sizzles.
I love when a film is quiet, absorbing the silence, hearing the world it lives in. There’s something so encompassing about it, and it’s so rarely done today. We don’t always need the consistent hum, but we do need the glaring knowledge of the unsaid and unheard. We need cities to come alive like they do here, bleak, cold, warm light in pockets, loneliness in others, and always that silence. There’s something…Translated from by
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The Doors: Live at the Bowl '68 1987
Adoro. Feels like an artifact.
Quite firm in my belief that no four people will ever be anything like this again. Childhood was spent with music of this era, alongside so many others: classical, Gregorian chants (un vero amore), cantautori (of course), estampie, new age & jazz. And so something else which shouldn’t surprise is how The Doors have remained the most cherished & enamoring of any band I’ve listened to. Morrison wore a cross during this show, and jokingly announced he…
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Queen Margot 1994
Operatic where it needs to be and humanistic where a film always should be. It’s primal strength is the ability to be about something besides history. Despite The Massacre heavily steering the plot, the undercurrents of the film are far richer and philosophical than a mere reenactment of Renaissance killings. Perseverance of the human spirit, and loneliness, that’s what hides in the shadows. I have never seen such a vivid depiction of human loneliness as I did here, and that…
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Beauty and the Beast 1946
The creation of fairytales, folktales and lore is separated from us by its individuality and aloofness. Despite decades of attempting to reach this world, we continuously fail. We ask ourselves 'what is the message,' what images should we remember, and yet no one ever believes the same thing; the 'truth' evades us. This (amongst other reasons) is why the ideology of introducing children to fairytales seems rather backwards. Are children's minds at a place where any of them could even…
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A Room with a View 1986
I don’t believe in a traditional ‘rewatch’ — each viewing of a film is an individual experience. We are different people, we’ve learned new things, our understanding of words spoken on screens are altered either by our own lives and/or our ability to hear new parables within the dialogue. I prefer not remembering how many times I’ve watched A Room With a View; I don’t want to keep score, I enjoy each instance as if it were the first, entering…
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