nonocine

nonocine

If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see, I’d put you in the mirror I put in front of me - Lou Reed

Favorite films

  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • The 400 Blows
  • 8½
  • The Lovers on the Bridge

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  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    ★★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

  • My Octopus Teacher

    ★★★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★½

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  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    Once Upon a Time in the West

    ★★★★★

    Once Upon a Time in the West of Paris... I watched this with a friend, I looked at big stretches of land, I loved the end. 

    The blocking, the pacing, the score! oh and Bronson's mug smiling. 
     
    There's magic in abstraction in forms like this one; a trove of ideas, I found, especially in pacing.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    I need to watch it again if I can gather the heart pieces, what a whirlwind. It proved useful to have my girlfriend who happens to be Hungarian next to me. Happy valentine’s. x

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  • Anatomy of a Fall

    Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★★

    Ficelé pour un tour d'équilibriste cinématographique hors du commun - Hubert Boon-Peper (Anachron)

    Bon, blague à part. Très bon, angoissant. Bravo aux jeux d’acteurs. Bravo au jeune acteur. Bravo au chien.

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★★

    HOW DOES IT FEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLL. A few favorite moments: 

    - Bob in the studio trying “I’ll Keep it With Mine” (great but unreleased song from the 65 period). 

    - *1965 title card* hits with Charlie Haden & Billly Higgins’ duo solo on “Lonely Woman” as dark magus Bob walks thru the village

    - the moment Bob finds the idea for “Like a rolling stone”, Timmy sings the run-down over “didn’t youuu” melody Bob sang in one of the early takes — when…