Sometimes it’s difficult to put my love of film into words. Whether it’s due to a lack of the requisite knowledge required when speaking at length on an artistic subject, or a result of a depression-induced inability to verbally translate the cerebral catastrophe occurring in my head at any given moment, I cannot say. There is simply some kind of mental block preventing me from articulating myself to my own satisfaction. Oddly (or perhaps understandably), this issue arises most often…
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Shoah 1985
Content Warning: The Holocaust, Nazism
“It was always peaceful here. When they burned 2000 people, Jews, every day, it was just as peaceful.”
These words, spoken by Simon Srebnik as he contemplates the modern conditions of the Chelmno extermination camp (of which he was a survivor some forty years prior to the filming of this scene), reflect the spiritual foundation of Shoah. In a film whose subject is antithetical to that state of being at every conceivable angle,…Translated from by
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Anora 2024
Psst: The Florida Project should have won Best Picture, too.
So fucking funny. I’m pretty sure I laugh harder at this movie than whichever big budget comedies that are popular right now. Some scenes might feel a little dragged out at at a first pass, but it all flows so naturally that eventually everything happening begins to feel essential. & I really love how much is happening in every frame; it really doesn’t let up until the very last few seconds, when the high wears off & everything finally comes crashing out. So fucking sad.
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Einstein on the Beach 2014
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Two lovers sat on a park bench with their bodies touching each other, holding hands in the moonlight. There was silence between them. So profound was their love for each other, they needed no words to express it. And so they sat in silence, on a park bench, with their bodies touching, holding hands in the moonlight.
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A Swedish Love Story 1970
Dad: “What are you watching?”
Me: “A Swedish Love Story.”
Dad: “Hmm.”
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Dad: “Is it in French?”
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