lowkey reminded me of some kind of aching loneliness and beauteous wonder I was going through when I lived and worked in London and vicariously saw the world through the eyes of two of my advisors during their student days. Some days I remember the sparse sun, some days the lapping water on the stepstones of the Thames, some days the remnants of Thomas Hardy's Ash tree in the old St Pancras church where my advisor's ancestors were buried, some days passing by the plaque where Lou Reed played his first UK show of Transformers. Watching this film felt like meeting an old lover.
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I wouldn't count myself as a regular theatre-goer but the things I have experienced in the theatre have been so inexplicably breathtaking that I don't ever want to have it any other way.
I saw this on the big screen with a live orchestra playing the whole soundtrack and there is something to be said about the beauty of watching a soundscape of a movie recited before your eyes - the low rumble of the drums, the trills and flicks…
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Every time I successfully add a film to Letterboxd's catalogue that wasn't already listed, I feel like I'm the last survivor of a civilization preserving it from fading into oblivion. The fucking hoops you have to jump through to see a movie appear in the letterboxd roster. Movies that don't have Wikipedia pages or IMDB pages for corroboration. Movies that do not have posters on Google images. Movies that do not have rolling credits to know which actor had played…
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The Fall 2006
The Fall is visually, technically, cinematically, and narratively a phenomenal piece of work. I cannot imagine how someone could achieve this superlative a movie with the innocence of a child's imagination that is so emotionally moving and funny at the same time! Can I just yap endlessly about this movie that has centered so many architectural wonders from India and given them the levity of a fantasy without the orientalist metaphors??????? AND PAID ITS CAST AND CREW EQUALLY???? Tarsem Singh…
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