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Babylon 2022
This is how you do a love letter to cinema. Movies aren’t just a product, they’re a production - a historically disgusting production. A rancid place where innocence is chewed up and digested like rats. Babylon asks the question, will you still love cinema despite how evil its creators are?
It’s a youthful electric mess, an anxious burning love for film history. Babylon is everything Hollywood cinema wants to be whilst also showing everything it wants to hide. Chazelle goes…
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Satantango 1994
Sátántangó is one of my absolute favourite books. Lászlo Krasznahorkai’s flowing, weighty descriptions create such a visceral emotional landscape, a world already in ruins that feels like it’s anxiously waiting to crumble further. Each character feels so abrasive yet vulnerable, denying themselves the honest connections they need, leaving you unsure whether to hate or pity them.
Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó is one of the most astute adaptations I’ve ever seen, maybe not the most narratively accurate, but the most emotionally faithful;…
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The World's End 2013
I think this is easily the most ambitious of the Cornetto trilogy. It tries to juggle so many themes/ideas that it ends up losing the perfectionism of the first two films, but I think that makes it a lot more exciting to rewatch.
Rewatching something perfect too many times makes it boring. Like finishing a puzzle, what is there left to do once it’s done? You’ve just got a picture on your table to look at. But if the puzzle…
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63 Up 2019
Regrettably didn’t watch all of these in order, as I watched them for an essay. But my God am I in love. Easily one of the most profound pieces of filmmaking I’ve ever seen. The way you can see the child they were in the adult they’ve become.
The struggle with being oneself, and reconciling who you want to be with who you are. No fiction could ever capture the profundity of ordinary life in the same way. Neil’s story was difficult to write about, because I could hardly see my laptop through the tears.Translated from by
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Cow 2021
I think it’s easy to scoff at this film if all you do is read the synopsis. Andrea Arnold came on stage after the screening and was the first to point out just how silly and/or boring the premise sounds. In execution however, Andrea creates something beautiful.
She spoke about how following a character for long enough will almost always make you empathise with them. That idea sets the framework for all of her films, as she often leaves you…
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Longlegs 2024
Going into Longlegs, I was subconsciously lumping it in with the standard Blumhouse/Shudder offerings that feel like they don’t think past their initial concept (Horror is an abused genre). So I am extremely glad to be proven wrong. The level of synthesis between story, style and performances is incredible; it’s very evident that it was a tight production, very meticulously crafted and impassioned on all fronts. It does what I wish more horror films would do and actually uses the…
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