I am not a giant silent film person. Of course they’re inherently cinematic and often the photography still looks beautiful. I do often feel like something is lost when we can’t directly hear the characters speak for themselves, communications are boiled down to body language and the most basic summation of what they said. I am starting a new thing trying to occasionally watch the oldest film on my list, because I know otherwise I’d never choose something like this…
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Amour 2012
To me of all Michael Haneke’s films this is the most terrifying. I’m not on a practical level fearful of being terrorized by golfers or someone surveilling my home, I don’t expect that to happen most likely. I do however expect to age and die. That’s much more sad and scary to me. There’s something dark about how you can have a beautiful life and you will still inevitably face a bleak end like a beautiful meal with a rotten…
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If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise 2010
How quick that one guy is basically like “yeah I’m a gold digger and I have a foot fetish” - in a film about the long term effects of Hurricane Katrina.
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Queer 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
As a wanderer myself and man of similar interests, proclivities and curiosity when it comes to vice and the hallucinatory properties of certain plants, I fancy myself something of a kindred spirt to Burroughs. Being such a man, I found myself very predisposed to such a film, much more so than Challengers (which I will get around to), as I have no interest in Tennis and the only one of the threesome I find particularly attractive is Mike Faist. Being…
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