No idea why people think this is dreamlike. A dream is more like City of Pirates, where the dialogue is conventionally incoherent but is polysemous, provocative, dark, and humorous. I also see it being compared to ISOLT, but Proust also has humor, irony and intelligence; his attention to detail becomes dissociative and breaks the illusion, reminding us that we are reading a book, whereas with Tarovsky it tends to simply submerge us further. Mirror is, to be honest, relatively straightforward…
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The Godfather 1972
This movie has all the atmosphere of an insurance office on a Monday afternoon. Oppressively austere, buttoned up to the chin, and far too self serious, it will make three hours on the couch feel like a twelve hour shift. One of the worst I've seen.
Michael is just exhausting to watch. I don't want to get into an argument about whether characters have to be "likeable", which is an ambiguous term, for a movie to be good. I'll say…
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Querelle 1982
I think it's a flawless film, which is odd because I'm usually not a huge fan of Fassbinder. It's the rawest, most honest expression, maybe, of the gay male psyche. Awash in beautiful colors, with fantastic, phallic architecture, it leaves all that boring realism, historicity, narrative arc and naturalistic acting behind. Basically, all the stupid crap that bogs down so many movies is carved right out, exactly as it should be—not that it comes across as pretentious or inaccessible! I'd…
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