“I asked you to marry me, didn’t I?” - John Wayne, Stagecoach, i.e. the greatest scene in motion picture history.
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L'Eclisse 1962
This and Dr. Strangelove would work wonderfully together as period pieces on the atomic era and the foreboding nature of it. Whereas Kubrick’s film is a biting, juvenile satire, Antonioni’s masterpiece functions more as a doomed, modernistic romance. A Doll’s House beginning followed by a journey into the urban world of stock market, deserted areas, and the bourgeoisie. Motifs of priests, horse carriages, water in a barrel, barriers filling this achingly frustrating romance. Delon and Vitti have brilliant chemistry in…
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Oppenheimer 2023
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Sensing this might just be my favourite Nolan, finally a film that manages to top The Dark Knight. Portrait of genius and beauty colliding with death and destruction. It’s a monumental film in its truest definition. Might just turn out to be my favourite film… ever? Maybe it’s too early and too rash because The Dark Knight holds a special place in my heart still… but this is a second step in my journey through the celluloid. Nolan is…
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
Deeply, deeply moved by the ending. The whole movie’s like a house of cards toppling down, but it focuses on the minuscule, the cascading cards crumbling into each other. Once undone, there’s nothing left to see or do, but try to put them back together, piece by piece.
And Winslet’s work is just really beautiful, but also smart, complex and sneakily what drives home the emotional core. Her performance is the glue between Clementine and the projected Clementine in Joel’s…
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Fiddler on the Roof 1971
Watched before, but I’ll count this as a first watch. But hey, what a really beautiful portrayal of a community, the shtetl. Tradition being challenged by youth. Love and faith, what comes first, what goes last? Tremendous performances, but also a musical that is simply spellbinding. Pauline Kael wrote about the immense power of the film as pure cinema, and to that respect, I must agree. Unsubtle and blunt, sure, but it wears the pathos proudly on its sleeves.
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Forgive Us Our Trespasses 2022
I loved representations and all that jazz, but this was just plainly bad. Throughout the whole short, I was disgusted by every choice made by the director.
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Mickey 17 2025
The best and most interesting blockbuster in a while- the type that people’ll laude in the future, sadly. Big fan of Pattinson, of course, but the way this adapts Mickey7 is so smart and really improves on the source material. It cranks up the social critique and the zaniness in equal measure, all in service of the year’s best sauce so far!
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