RickLange

RickLange

Owner of Rhino Records
CEO of Visual Stimulation

Favorite films

  • Pandora's Box
  • Andrei Rublev
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Sweet Smell of Success

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  • Nosferatu

    ★½

  • The Silence

    ★★★★½

  • Society

    ★★

  • Oppenheimer

    ★★★½

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★½

    NOsferatu. Deeply disapointed as I LOVED the Witch and know this was a labor of love but I found the film itself more undead than Orlock. Great texture and camera work, interesting physical acting from Depp but the stilted dialogue made me long for silence and the storytelling was ponderous. Hiding both the monster & sunshine from the film until the end was mildly effective at the cost of my own interest. Simon Mcburney was the most interesting performance as the…

  • The Silence

    The Silence

    ★★★★½

    “The Silence,” set amid a backdrop of sweltering heat and impending war in an unnamed European country, is one of Bergman’s most difficult films. It has all of his midcareer obsessions — angst, gloomy sex, Freudianism, existentialism, suppressed hysteria and heavy symbolism, punctuated by angry outbursts.!"

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  • The Witch

    The Witch

    ★★★★

    Immediate classic.

  • Phantom Thread

    Phantom Thread

    ★★★★

    My favorite film of 2017.

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