The Star of Cottonland

The Star of Cottonland

1984
Liked Watched

A cute, funny, heartwarming & at times a bit dark "coming of age" story well plotted with a nice characterization & beautiful music

Angel's Egg

Angel's Egg

1985
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

The "dream" remains in the realm of possibility if you stay in your shell without confronting reality and questioning "shadows" of the past.
You see no bird but a foul fossil, yet the feathers are Present there.
The new world can't be created, without a pre-established Harmony

Blade Runner

Blade Runner

1982
Liked Added 3

"Chaque fois qu'une lumière brûle deux fois plus, elle brille deux fois moins longtemps. Et vous avez brûlé on ne peut plus brillamment, Roy"

Area 88

Area 88

1985
Liked Watched

Take Taxi driver's Travis bickle, send him back to his years of war in Apocalypse Now, and get rid of all the chill and quirckiness and don't worry, the brotherhood moments shall compensate with goosebumps and manly tears.
Shin Kazama, prodige airplane student, gets betrayed and sent into a legion at the middle east, where he must fight for 3 years in order to pay the debt and get back free to his beloved one waiting for him, the only…

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

2013
Liked Watched

"-En regagnant la pureté de la capitale de la lune, vous serez lavée des souillures terrestres.

-Je ne suis pas souillée ! La joie et la tristesse...tout ce qui vit sur terre est chargé de nuances! à chacun sa tonalité..oiseaux, insectes, bêtes sauvages, feuillages, herbes et fleurs..nourrissent la clémence des hommes"

Twin Peaks: The Return

Twin Peaks: The Return

2017
★★★★★ Rewatched

Man, episode 08 is something else entirely. feels like the surreal extended (dare i say better?)version of Berserk's lost chapter(83) about the idea of evil. the surrealist movement have always been-entre autres- about reacting to the horrors of war, in an attempt to bring back the human from within "incomprehensible" realms.
Full stars for the episode, and for David Lynch. Rest in Peace.

Echebka (الشبكة)

Echebka (الشبكة)

1976
Watched

Labor Day, 2022.

يا صيادي العالم اتحدوا ؛ سيد علي كويرات كي كان
كحالجي يطارد سراب الرفاهية في رحلته من الريف نحو المدينة لإسقاط البورجوازي المستبد.
This film was made during the reign of Algerian president Houari Boumédiène. It's a socialist propaganda that portrays the journey of the hot tempered proletarian hero Maammar played by Sid Ali Kouiret, and how he gets tempted by the seductive mirage of the city life symbolized here by a blond woman, and enraged by…

Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy

2021
Watched

Shingo Natsume is an okay director and a nice animator but a weak writer, at least for his debute as one in Sonny Boy.
Due to the targeted demographic, there are two recurrent themes in most of anime that aspire to be artistic : coming of age and escapism ; as we can see this in the works of studio Gainax, Satoshi Kon and as far as modern anime is concerned, Gurren Lagann and The Tatami Galaxy, besides other works…

Mirror

Mirror

1975
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

"" Le Miroir constitue un cristal tournant, à deux faces si on le rapporte au personnage adulte invisible (sa mère, sa femme), à quatre faces si on le rapporte aux deux couples visibles (sa mère et l’enfant qu’il a été, sa femme et l’enfant qu’il a). Et le cristal tourne sur lui-même, comme une tête chercheuse qui interroge un milieu opaque : "Qu’est-ce que la Russie, qu’est-ce que la Russie...?" Le germe semble se figer dans ces images trempées, lavées,…

Papicha

Papicha

2019
Watched

Doesn't deserve all the hate it got.
it's not even as ""femnistic"" as people make it sound like. it has other interesting things, and elements that could've been better handled.

As yall heard, yes the better thing in this film is the main character, in all her dimensions she's the most interesting, add to that the nice acting of hers.
She is this rebellious girl who makes some viewers relate to her, she feels her belonging into her country, stands…

Nostalgia

Nostalgia

1983
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Words are not 100% mine (am not a nolanorofsky ;) )

Andrei destroyed the myth of Sisyphus,
He carried the cross instead of the rock and withstood the agony,
He befriended the pain to creat harmony from disharmony,
Beauty from the irrational, spiritual and anti-modernist tall grass,
Then he stood on top of the mountain, non victorious,
But silent, needing a hand to light the candle,
He stood there and martyrologed his-our- existence,
Sculpted in our souls, memories & consciousness,
To play the mercy prelude, and make us revisit the adoration of Faith

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972
Liked Watched

"Fortune smiles on the brave, and spits on the coward.
If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches."