Mike

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Favorite films

  • Last and First Men
  • The Double Life of Véronique
  • Stalker
  • Once Upon a Time in America

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  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

  • Companion

    ★★★

  • The Gorge

    ★★★

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  • On the Silver Globe

    On the Silver Globe

    ★★★★★

    Even when roughly 20% of the film was never finished, On the Silver Globe still provides more food for thought than most other films.


    Love means the annihilation of all separation; the identification of the human gaze with the impersonal gaze of the universe: “There is suffering, but there is no subject of suffering. There is action, but there is no subject of action. There is solace, but there is no man to reach it. There is a road, but…

  • La Belle Noiseuse

    La Belle Noiseuse

    ★★★★★

    The Beautiful Troublemaker is an enthralling film that is as much about the painting as it is not


    Ten years ago that painting was the beginning of a story. But now it's not a new beginning... It's the end...



    I did not expect to be so enthralled by a 4 hour film about a painting, but here we are. On the surface this is a very plain and simple film that would even bore most people if it was just…

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  • White Boy Rick

    White Boy Rick

    ★★★★

    This little manoeuvre is going to cost us 25 to life

  • Gertrud

    Gertrud

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • War and Peace

    War and Peace

    ★★★★★

    War and Peace is an epic film on a grand scale like you have never seen before


    Success does not depend on positions or weapons nor even the number of men... It depends on the feeling within me, within him, within every soldier.



    From the giant battles, huge environments, 103 filming locations, 300 characters with dialogue and 12.000 extra's... to the 6 year production time, big crew and 7 hour runtime. Literally everything about this film is massive.

    War and…

  • Once Upon a Time in America

    Once Upon a Time in America

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.