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Crimes of Passion 1984
Ken Russell‘s films really speak to me. I love how brazen and perverse he is with the things he presents in his movies, but also how he manages to be these things without sacrificing the artistic and thematic integrity of his work. Russell’s style is so weird that I think there is somewhat of a barrier to entry for getting into his work, but once you get past that, films like this one really hit. Crimes of Passion is great…
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There Was a Father 1942
Pretty forgettable. This film is injected with a lot of unfortunate Japanese wartime propagandizing—everyone must work as hard as they can in their given station in life, sacrificing all personal ambition and desire, for the good of all—but Ozu’s humanism shines through enough to make it feel like a relatively harmless depiction of common people trying to rationalize their lives in a crumbling fascist society as opposed to some sort of full-blown fascist propaganda. What really sinks this film is…
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The Lives of Others 2006
I can only imagine the intense pleasure liberals (and of course conservatives as well, but that goes without saying) got out of rubbing one out to Christa getting hit by that truck or the book dedication to HGW XX/7.
Fuck this movie. This is just neoliberal idealistic and moralistic slop packaged as some meaningful statement about “totalitarianism.” It’s one thing to make a movie critiquing East Germany and the Stasi (because yeah, the GDR wasn’t a cloud cuckoo land, it…
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
Eyes Wide Shut is one of those movies that is so enormous in scope that it’s hard to know what to say about it in a review. Every single detail is bursting with meaning and significance. I’m going to isolate a handful of the film’s features that particularly stand out to me.
First, Kubrick’s use of color in Eyes Wide Shut is breathtaking. The reds, the blues, the purples, the greens, all come together in a distinct and gorgeous prism…
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