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The Moment of Truth 1965
Wish this was a full fledged documentary instead of trying to be a narrative mixed with documentary footage. The action is intense and the narrative is blahhh. Hard watch, bulls dying over and over.
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An Autumn Afternoon 1962
Had me reflecting on life a good many of times. Such a smooth filmmaker Ozu was, this thing just naturally glides along while looking gorgeous.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Film #1/42
Hoop-tober 5.0
letterboxd.com/tonguetied/list/hoop-tober-50-sophomore-year-with-the-wolves/What a stunning film from Herzog, the best vampire film I have seen, and a satisfying blend of philosophical wonderings, with great pauses in plays allowing full momentum of each powerful line, shadows that out-duel the original (rightfully so given technological advances) and a mood that keeps you in dread from the opening. Kinski's body movement and specifically his hand gestures (as well as his jump to acceleration when throwing the chair in the dinner…
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The Savages 2007
About as average as it gets, despite tremendous work from Linney and Hoffman leading the way. The sort of film you can pretty much guess each step along the way and in that way, it finds a way to annoy me. Give me dark and emotional or give me light-hearted with humor. Mixing tones, while a few manage to successfully do this, is hard to accomplish. The film tries to have it's funny moments...but they never really come across as being...funny.
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