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The Cell 2000
arthouse esoterica mixed with the corniest hollywood tropes known to man. thinly veiled fetish film, not that that’s a bad thing; the movie would be much worse off without the transgressive psychosexual horror. so much potential which was largely ruined by jennifer lopez’ stilted, oddly hypersexual acting—it felt like she was going to turn to the camera and do the zoolander ben stiller expression at any given moment. vaughn is second worst with the endlessly played out stock trope of…
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958
felt like a cross between a streetcar named desire and the death of a salesman. loved paul newman and elizabeth taylor’s performances. love maggie especially, absolute diva
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The Night of Counting the Years 1969
simple plot but compelling cinematography and themes nonetheless. stark shots of black, billowing robes against bone-white sand and pallid skin and sun-bleached walls, and the perpetual sound of wind howling in the background create a desolation of heroic proportions. which of course i think fits the whole theme of monumental history, death and memory/forgetting very well. a mountain tribe subsisting on the artefacts of the remembrance of the dead, a terrain scattered with ruins of dead empires and tombs erected…
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Metropolis 1927
absolutely breathtaking work of cinema—the retrofuturistic set design (the geometry and hard angles of the 20s, i love art deco so much), the expressionistic sequences of faces and eyes stitched together with scenes of maria’s bacchic frenzy, scored by an amazingly emotive orchestra (excellent use of musical motif, sorry idk the proper term for that). just overall visually stunning film, especially for the period in which it was produced.
thematically i wasn’t a huge fan, especially towards the end—reconciliation of…
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