period-film
Moby Dick (1956) – John Huston
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Toned-down, trippy-colored salty-candy trip about classic revenge and honorable madness. A well-manouvered, savagely hunted-down condensation of a source material βmastodonβ.
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Cabaret (1972) – Bob Fosse
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Singing-dancing heavy downer light-show sharply staged around a three-legged relationship with sex, booze and blood outspoken with clear-minded, subtly astute dialogue.
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The Lighthouse (2019) – Robert Eggers
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Picture-pitch perfect except for the sound of farts offensively trapping a scattered
plot inside of a frame that hits one square between the eyes.
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The Rum Diary (2011) – Bruce Robinson
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Although preceded by a promising start, the problem springs up in the hollow-middle by scattering nothing around other than fun for the people involved.
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Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood (2019) – Quentin Tarantino
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Beyond the good one would expect as it beautifully boomerangs itself back to hoped-for Pulp Fiction territory only this time with a heavier cast.
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Marie Antoinette (2006) – Sofia Coppola
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Firmly cushioned in the eye candy of the revolutionary stormβadorned with a Rock & Rococo soundtrack that invisibly frames the perfect portrait of unawareness.
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Almost Famous (2000) – Cameron Crowe
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Grounded with emotional veracity in the most vocal point of feud with the Death of everything that was holy and pure to rock and roll.
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The Prestige (2006) – Christopher Nolan
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Fully charged but its progressive energy keeps getting cut off by a silver screenplay that can’t tell exposition from emotional-trigger boredom apart at all.
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There Will Be Blood (2007) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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Family values suffer
In this Passion Play
Powered by music,
Coal, OIL, & palms
Greased by multiple
PiecesΒ of silver.
Lewis triumphs in
Self-crucifixion.
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Basquiat (1996) – Julian Schnabel
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Talent-heavy (cast-wise) downer about a man who erases his own by hiding behind an embalming hype that far outlasts its allotted 15 minutes.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick
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Benchmark trip from a fantastic audio-visual realm that does not really clarify the slowly rotating RubikΒ΄s Cube storyline that’s space-cold and trauma-like.
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The Virgin Suicides (1999) – Sofia Coppola
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A clandestine teenage brothel run by hard loving parents who keep basking in GodΒ΄s rain right where the moral crater seems to bleed the most.
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Mank (2020) – David Fincher
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Single most black & white modern period-film exquisitely monkey-grinding the royal Randolph hemp out of us with Reznor-sharp reel-changing monochromatic flair.
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) – Stephen Hopkins
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Geoffrey Rushes his
Portayal of Proteus
Both amusing
And annihilating all
Significant others
(especially mothers),
But never
Pleased!
(Based-on book)
Donβt skip
Audio Commentaries!
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Francis Ford Coppola
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Not even partially dubious casting could jinx this blood-ruby of classy kitschβcarved out of morbid fascination and respect for the franchiseΒ΄s original outputs.
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Bronson (2008) – Nicolas Winding Refn
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Precious stone of modern independent cinema and character study “par excellence.” Hysterical, ballistic and mordantly fulminant. A truly stimulating example for period-films to come.
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Lords of Dogtown (2005) – Catherine Hardwicke
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The original sparks that supernova-ed a whole industry that ludicrously although successfully reinvented both the wheel and how to become a music-free rockstar.
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Mid90s (2018) – Jonah Hill
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Profound motion picture of short stature that proves itself large by showing with stunning, sympathetic sharpness how a pre-adolescent masochist jumps into intentional idiocy.
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Dazed and Confused (1993) – Richard Linklater
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Time-honored period-film that simply and independently pulls off a believable vintage-vibe by bringing out big nuances out of very small-town things.
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The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion
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Kurt CobainΒ΄s last watched film: kiwi period piece that is really about prostitution rather than repressed passions juicing through the colourful cracks of dark colonialism.
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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Judy sang “Born in a trunk”.
Rudy danced “Born on a train”.
Trunk or train, it’s an old refrain:
“Survival of the cutest on stage”.
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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“Equality & Fraternity” ?
NO.
“Liberty (w/ follow-spot)”
YES.
“I was born to excell.
(Let the rest go to Hell.)
Signed,
Nureyev,
“King of Ballet”
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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“For me, no more
‘Espree d’ cor’ ”
Says Rudy to
Soviet nursery.
“In Paris France
I’ll take my chance
For fancier pants
And fat-pursery.”
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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The Soviets expect gratitude from
a “lump of coal” they polished into
a diadem for their chandelier of
mock-French Ballet.
But Pinocchio renounces Gepetto.
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The Irishman (2019) – Martin Scorsese
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Crème de la crème of a celebrated lifetime of Midnight Espressos that cinematically pushes every right Benjamin-Button with medically accurate gore and passive wrath.
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Gladiator (2000) – Ridley Scott
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Twist-less crowd winner that Hellraises Oliverβs lion-faced redemption out of bloodied vistas like a fat Phoenix that Reeds of condescending soundtracks and cutting.
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The Others (2001) – Alejandro AmenΓ‘bar
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Intense beauty and fear holding hands in the permanent protection of a broken family that is full of love for one another in macabre ignorance.
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Francis Ford Coppola (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancΓ©e Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.”
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Idi i smotri/Come and See (1985) -Elem Klimov (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.”
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Da hong deng long gao gao gua/Raise the Red Lantern (1991) – Yimou Zhang (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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βA young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.β
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The Thin Red Line (1998) – Terrence Malick
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With crew, cut, script, cast and sound of high enough caliber can this force of nature celluloid projectile blow up any line to kingdom come.
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Casino (1995) – Martin Scorsese
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Glorious continuation to the perfect film that Goodfellas (1987) already is, magnifying the produce from every technical artistic prowess displayed before into another real story.
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Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese
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Ask Johnny Two-Times how funny does he think this based-on-true-events mob movie is, and exactly how is it amusing and entertaining.
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000) – E. Elias Merhige
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If William Dafoe needed an acting diploma this should be his master thesis to share with KeatonΒ΄s Beetlejuice (1988) and GibsonΒ΄s The Singing Detective (2003.)
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) – The Coen Brothers
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Highly original take on Homerβs odyssey in the rural 1930βs space, where bank robberies and racism are still a thing that could get you killed.
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Barton Fink (1991) – The Coen Brothers
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When the salesman is Death and not the other way around the block of sanity that keeps peeling off in blind corridors of walled desires.
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Miller’s Crossing (1990) – The Coen Brothers
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Drinking is no lubricant but a lifestyle. A hat is not an object but a character that wears you on while you try staying lubricated.
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The Doors (1991) – Oliver Stone
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Stunning tunnel-vision composite that is dead-determined to focus on tip-of-the-iceberg aspects of a rich and extraordinary story. Kilmer shines possessed.
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The English Patient (1996) – Anthony Minghella
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A closer full-color look into the lives, intrigues and conflicts of human mammals in the arid 40βs desert environment by the International Geographic channel.
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Platoon (1986) – Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stoneβs first installment of his venerably veritable Vietnam War film trilogy, starting with his own experience as a volunteer coming from a privileged background.
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Troy (2004) – Wolfgang Petersen
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Ein glΓ€ubiges KΓΆnigreich voller NaivitΓ€t fΓΌr eine blauΓ€ugige blonde Prinzessin, das jedoch aufβs falsche Pferd setzt.
Helden sterben, KΓΆnige sterben. Sean Bean ΓΌberlebt.
Paradox, episch..
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Summer of Sam (1999) – Spike Lee
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Everyone curses except for the killer and his dog in the hot and sticky summer of our discontent made glorious winter by this fucking masterpiece.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston
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How can you tell if the gold is even real when inside your head everything is in black and white? True colors cross you twice.
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Inherent Vice (2014) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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A perplexing ride-along with a heroic heroin-free doper peek-eye in one of the most confusing coordinates of time to be anchored at.
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There Will Be Blood (2007) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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A very proud and angry turn-of-the-20th-century prospector carries inflammable cabin fever around him everywhere/everyone he choses to own and drill.
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The Man Who Wasnβt There (2001) – The Coen Brothers
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The exquisite sense of irony of modern manβs bullshit life is never dry-cleaner than here; all been told in luminance levels imbued with Beethoven.
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The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (2018) – Coen Brothers
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Moderne Coenβsche Western-Anthologie bestehend aus 6 unabhΓ€ngigen Geschichten.
Was mit AuthentizitΓ€t und Charme losgeht entwickelt sich zur herben EnttΓ€uschung mit zu weit verstreuten Glanzmomenten.
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) – Bryan Singer
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Eine kleine Silhouette eines Mannes.
Dieser Film ist ein Fandango von talentierten Schauspielern und wir sehen wie gΓ€nsehauterregende Geistesblitze zu Hitsongs werden. Biopic des Jahres!
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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) – Mary Harron
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People go after their fifteen minutes of fame the way a moth goes to a flame. Symptoms of burning can only manifest in negative ways.
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The Passion of the Christ (2004) – Mel Gibson
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Only Gibsonβs own radical passion could heal the constant wounds of a hemophiliac subject that never begins to end. Pleasure-pain for the dogma-giddy.
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JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone
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Maybe Oswald was a great shot after all and single-handedly dented the world with a fulminant sacrifice…a patsy-making film of paranoid passion.
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Johnny Got His Gun (1971) – Dalton Trumbo
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Written and directed by a black-listed Spartan-man whoΒ΄s only begotten power was paralyzed by the wronging sword of a State of infuriating affairs.
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Sergio Leone
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The Italian mammoth-mama of all justifiably long, resentment-free films that is perfectly casted, filmed and performed thusly keeping the human-continuity from slipping.
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βKiss Tomorrow Goodbyeβ (2019) True Detective: 03×02 – Jeremy Saulnier
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Ermittlungen im verkokeltem Heuhaufen dank angespannter Luft. Rauch und keine Aussicht auf Regen. Die vermisste Nadel taucht zu spΓ€t auf.
Geplagter Drei-Generationplot verdichtet sich.
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Barry Lyndon (1975) – Barry Lyndon
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Hopefully in this day and age of long forms of entertainment such as the video podcast people can finally quit complaining about Barry Lyndonβs length.
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β1:23:45β (2019) – Chernobyl: 01×01 – Johan Renck
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Von Sekunde Null an wird man direkt nach Prypjat transportiert und ist Zeuge einer Kettenreaktion an Fehlentscheidungen, welche bedrohlich kΓΌhl durch beeindruckendem Cast dargestellt werden.
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Apocalypto (2006) – Mel Gibson
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This movie is about fear and the end of the world. Knowing how bad history went as a spectator makes it all the more brutal.
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Dazed and Confused (1993) Richard Linklater
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Inbegriff eines High School-Sommerferienbeginn-GefΓΌhls. Ein gigantisches Musikvideo mit sanfter Nostalgie und familiΓ€rem Vibe durch viele heutzutage bekannte Schauspieler vor der BlΓΌte ihrer Zeit.
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – Frank Darabont
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Zeitloser βFeel Goodβ-Film ΓΌber Freundschaft, Gerechtigkeit und SpiritualitΓ€t fΓΌr jene ohne Hoffnung, die glauben sie wΓ€ren am Ende.
WunderschΓΆn verfilmt, komplett ohne Special Effects.
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Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton
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A budget-bulged passion package containing tremendous Orson Welles admiration inside, while storytelling the shaky struggling days of a good heart looking for missing talent.
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Green Book (2018) – Peter Farrelly
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Klassisches Aufeinandertreffen zweier unterschiedlicher Generationen verkΓΆrpert durch gegenseitiges an die Wand spielen.
Herzliche Reise durch die Staaten der 60er mit musikalischer Seele und ordinΓ€rem Humor.
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Mallrats (1995) – Kevin Smith
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Nerdy humorvolles Low-Budget-Break-Up-Drama mit jugendlichem Charme im Einkaufszentrum.
Jay und Silent Bob und Stan Leeβs bester Cameo.
Ein Film fΓΌr mich.
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Dogville (2004) – Lars von Trier
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An original motion picture with an irresistible trailer and a surefire cast. A great take on our basic humanity and treatment of one another. Outstanding.
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Immortal Beloved (1994) – Bernard Rose
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Ludwig van BeethovenΒ΄s life and Zeitgeist crammed in two hours including sex, alcohol and post-Baroque & Roll. An ordinary film with an extraordinary cast.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) – George Clooney
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Wise men say only fools rush into a dating game show and fall in love with themselves on televisionβbut the wisest run the show.
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Love and Mercy (2014) – Bill Pohlad
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Cusack hasnΒ΄t been this good since his own Grace disappeared, but Dano has been trully great for the first time in a permanently resonant film.
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Auto Focus (2002) – Paul Schrader
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Careful what you audition for: it might get you in the tightest-spot of a color-blind district that is sharp with double-life contrast.
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The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) – Milos Forman
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No need to agree with people’s desires, but to absolutely defend their right to pursuit them and prosper. Bad-taste has a short shell life.
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Mandy (2018) – Panos Cosmatos
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A fucking fabulous face – morphing film – feast, that feels like a heavy Ayahuasca trip that will rock and roll you out of your favorite t-shirt.
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No Country for Old Men (2007) – The Coen Brothers
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Bubonic-plague personified decides to single out the fastest Death-escaping cowboy and wastes no time in hunting him down a road of rural intrigue.
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Paths of Glory (1957) – Stanley Kubrick
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A battleground-breaking anti-war, anti memory-loss production that came out only twelve years after the great war cracked the Death atom-nerve open.
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Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) – Mike Nichols
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An effective bon vivant in the political realm whoβs own mind has become imprisoned in a cell of depleted endorphins finds action in external meaning.
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) – Martin Scorsese
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Rise and fall of the great wall of street Gatsby-ing self-amusedly told in tones that charm and entertain but fail to reach redemption.
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The Tree of Life (2011) – Terrence Malick
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It boggles the mind to see modern beauty so densely packed into a movie-sitting. A transcendental chandelier made out of sweat, tears and chlorophyll.