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  All We Imagine as Light 2024

  ★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2025

  I felt like the film's narrative comments simultaneously on the farcical nature of the promises of prosperity, aspirational value, and fulfillment of desire that are promised of Indian urban life and women's pursuit of marriage with men. The scene at the beginning showing an old woman in a hospital bed awakening from a nightmare to ask for her husband, who's voice always calms her, evinces these thematic concerns. She describes her nightmare as the occasion of her husband coming to…

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  Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025

  This version of Nosferatu is much more emotionally provocative and revealing than the 2024 one felt. The vampire count Dracula played by Klaus Kinski is really a bewildered and senile, dying, blithering animal who seeks human affection, but is so scarred by the passage of time upon his wilted mind that he can only be a natural monster, like a bat, simply descending upon its prey in the night. Lucy is very beautiful and earnest, and her face after the…

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  The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Jan 2025

  The volcanoes and immense scenes of natural destruction are compelling in and of themselves as a sort of magnitude to behold, and the people capturing them are left to be seen as only people in their wake. The focus that was those people's passion and their very own footage frames them as less than central to the imagery, creating more of a direct engagement with their work than their personal lives in the fashion of a biographical account. If their…

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  Dune 1984

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  Dune is a classic sci-fi futuristic outer space film, with darker more unclear elements. We have the classic story of the chosen individual and their great quest against the evil galactic scale forces at play, but simultaneously we have a mystery even more shrouded in contextual gaps and abruptly unexplained imagery that beckons the viewer to consider the greater scheme and scale of the narrative. Of course our protagonist must venture across the perils of his journey and defeat the…