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Everybody Go Home! 1960
Like other commedia all'italiana films, this one is full of rapid juxtapositions, with absurd, slapstick humor interrupted by jarringly horrific scenes. I think the main character in particular didn't feel particularly rounded--a typical Sordi role, he here plays a semi-cynical Italian "everyman." My theory is that having the film centered around this kind of character makes the tonal shifts less superfluous and harder to take in, at least in part--I think about that in contrast with some of the other…
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Shoah 1985
Certainly a well-made movie, though its ideology and message are, I would say, quite flawed. I think Dominick LaCapra's critique in the essay "Lanzman's 'Shoah': 'Here There is no Why.'" sums it up way better than I could--hard to deny LaCapra is completely right when you read it. It's a film more interested in neurotically and melancholically repeating the past, ad nauseum, stemming from its uncomfortable sacralization of the Holocaust, than it is in understanding it (indeed, Lanzmann would write…
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There's Still Tomorrow 2023
While I watched this, I was thinking about the following: it plays with some neorealist ideas and themes but never really commits or captures what's great about neorealist cinema. You can just tell this film was made in a studio with professional actors. They all look really clean all the time, despite their alleged poverty. I didn't see many signs of damage sustained in the war, either. Further, while the greatest neorealist cinema often emerged almost organically from the environment…
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Wings of Desire 1987
Good movie. The camera stuff looks cool (if a camera moves i usually find it cool) with some great sweeping shots of the city standing out. The sudden contrasts between color and black and white shots allow us to appreciate and see the beauty in what might be otherwise ordinary images. It's not a very flashy movie and that's good, because it lets the characters and us appreciate the simple beauty of 1980s Berlin and those who live there, as…
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