The day will come
When my dreams are no longer known
But in the spaces found in the letters of this poem
I will never tire of looking for you
-Sapardi Djoko Damono
Cinema Paradiso is just wonderful. It takes me back to my first film class with my cinefilo teacher. I didn't know, until years later, that the version etched in my memory was the director's cut.
When I first watched the theatrical cut, I waited for a conversation between Toto and Alfredo. It wasn't there. I thought I imagined it.
Now I understand why the soldier left right at the end...
1. Psychosexual atmosphere
2. Gore
3. Surreal sparkling
4. Female
5. Neon Demon could never
This inspired me to go to the northernmost tip of South America, La Guajira, where a vast desert meets the Caribbean sea. I don't like talking about my months there because I could never do it justice. This film captures the depth of that feeling. Los Viajes del Viento is more than magical realism, accordion battles, and loss. It's the tension between the old and the new, the remembered and forgotten.
I love films that don't talk down to me.…