Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Stellan Skarsgård and Wilhelm Furtwängler, one of my favourite actors and one of my favourite conductors. Hell to the yeah this pairing was perfect.
Just as an aside, go listen to some of the Furtwängler recordings that we have, he was highly regarded for a reason. He also retains many elements of 19th century performance practice which makes my early music brain happy.
I'm not sure I liked how much Beethoven 5 was blasted over and over again when that…
La Jatée is one of my favourite movies of all time and I’m saddened it somehow inspired 2073.
The scariest aspect of this film is not all of the true things that it discusses, but that the demonization of the other side of the political spectrum (clearly the entire goal of this movie it seems) is exactly what a totalitarian dictatorship would do. Probably one of the most oblivious and unself-aware things I’ve ever seen.
Also no time travel??? What rubbish.
My mission to sell indulgences and raise money for the construction of St. Peter's Basilica is dead. My dream is dead. And these monstrous pamphlets of propaganda should be at the bottom of the river, along with me. Something in my head. Something talking. The devil! Gone. Rebuild? No. St. Peter was right. I miscalculated. I couldn't have miscalculated. The scheme was working, wasn't it? Yes. We could rebuild. Enlarge the time and suffering in purgatory, make it bigger, stronger…
This film is simultaneously a 0 star and a 5 star film, a velocipastor with a slightly higher budget, contains dashes of star trek, primer, passion of the christ, god's not dead, project almanac, zero dark thirty, back to the future, last temptation of christ, terminator, and left behind along with the theological accuracy of all of those franchises combined, written by your flordian/conspiracy theory/on the brink of islamaphobic/armchair physicist/and book of revelation-obsessed sunday school teacher, is one of the…