behdad etezadi

behdad etezadi

Favorite films

  • Mary and Max
  • The Fugitive Kind
  • 8½
  • Being There

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  • Bad Day at Black Rock

    ★★★

  • Loving Pablo

    ★★★

  • Papillon

    ★★★★½

  • Society of the Snow

    ★★½

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  • Bad Day at Black Rock

    Bad Day at Black Rock

    ★★★

    Spencer Tracy humbles a whole town with his hand in his pocket

  • Loving Pablo

    Loving Pablo

    ★★★

    Very watchable! And perhaps even underrated!

    Unlike what I had heard, the acting in this movie is actually fine! Javier Bardem takes a more angled approach to portraying the legendary Colombian drug lord, giving us a more vicious Escobar.

    The most apparent, and perhaps only, problem is that Pablo Escobar’s sheer complexity and gravity are so colossal that, when combined with Bardems naturally commanding screen presence (even more toned down than normal), it completely overshadows the rest of the characters.…

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    Tar + Ray + There Will Be Blood!
    ...with a dash of eroticism and homoeroticism!
    First half: perfect! Second half: not really...

    While the BAFTAs were being handed out, I was sitting in the dark, watching The Brutalist, a monumental monstrosity of a movie on 70mm. Ambitious in concept and production, shot on VistaVision on a comparatively diminutive budget of less than $10 million, this movie is undeniably a contribution to film and filmmaking.

    It opens with a stunning overture,…

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★½

    I felt like nothing had changed since I was a child. For about 80 minutes, I was living the way I would have back then.