Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Recent activity
All
Recent reviews
More-
-
Aftersun 2022
Hauntingly beautiful and poignantly heart-wrenching. This film came to me at a particularly existential turning point in my life so I’m partial to its magnetic pull. I don’t think I will ever listen to “Losing My Religion” with the same ears ever again! And the “Under Pressure” scene…
Translated from by -
The Darjeeling Limited 2007
Poignantly comical, comically philosophical, and philosophically plastic. Anderson once again manages to create a magistral dialectic between the absurd and the profound, the artificial and the human, the exotic and the universal. “India” is but a double for the brothers’ mother (and also their dead father) who remains, like the exotic location in which they find themselves, awfully obscure and painfully elusive. Their search for some kind of enlightenment culminates not in the cultivation and exploitation of the unknowable, but rather…
Translated from by -
The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
This film instantly feels like an Anderson classic and a peak in his cinematographic range. Fell in love with so many colors, and so many characters—their failures, predicaments, and vicissitudes are so palpable, yet so comically stylized as to feel almost plastic, but undeniably comforting. His idiosyncratic aesthetics excavate beauty even in the most grotesque depths of our humanity and could doubtless warm the most glacial of hearts.
Translated from by
