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THE BEST CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE THAT EDGAR COCHRAN HAD IN HIS ENTIRE LIFETIME.
To them I will give within my temple and its walls, a memorial and a name, better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever. -Isaiah 56:5
How do you surpass Sátántangó (1994)? How are you supposed to beat the best, most comprehensive, emotionally edifying, spiritually cathartic and humanly complete cinematic experience of one’s life?
Humbly dedicated to all of my Muslim friends and non-friends, and harshly dedicated to a very specific human being.
As a Christian, I find this film incredibly important and utmost fascinating, even if it promotes another religion entirely. Deeply respected and meaningful historical essay with peak cinematic tools and a technique reminiscent of the Golden Age Hollywood titanic blockbusters, Al-risâlah explains the foundation of Islam, the divine revelations of prophet Muhammad according to Islam, the…
The “Argentinian Revolution” is the name with which the civil-military dictatorship defined itself which overthrew the constitutional president Arturo Umberto Illia through a coup d'état on June 28th, 1966, and governed the country until June 25th, 1973. The “Argentinian Revolution” did not present itself as “provisional” like all other preceding coups, but pretended to establish itself as a new permanent dictatorial system, later associated with the concept of Authoritarian Bureaucratic State (EBA), term…
“Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.” -1 Samuel 8: 7-9
Glorious humanist document embodying flawless cinematic perfection. A behemoth of a social statement inevitably intertwined with the political sphere of humankind, proving that all government systems and ideological propositions are doomed to fail as long as they are not inspired by the Word that…
“Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.” -1 Samuel 8: 7-9
Glorious humanist document embodying flawless cinematic perfection. A behemoth of a social statement inevitably intertwined with the political sphere of humankind, proving that all government systems and ideological propositions are doomed to fail as long as they are not inspired by the Word that…
“Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.” -1 Samuel 8: 7-9
Glorious humanist document embodying flawless cinematic perfection. A behemoth of a social statement inevitably intertwined with the political sphere of humankind, proving that all government systems and ideological propositions are doomed to fail as long as they are not inspired by the Word that…
Assayas as an expert director of a metafilm opera out of control, full of real-life industry intricacies, ironies on-set, and giving Maggie Cheung a completely different role for the sake of variety, and she truly shines like the sun, both in soundless and colorful form! Openly borrowing influence from Fassbinder’s Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) and Truffaut’s La Nuit Américaine (1973), Irma Vep goes beyond being a tribute to the inconvenient eccentricities of filmmaking…
Zendaya the expressionless is looking for roles that require more than a facial versatility on the level of Steven Seagal and I respect that. Guadagnino, we get it: tennis as a metaphor of the playground of life with all risks involved, the match point as the decisive turning point in an era of our lives, and how easily men can be manipulated by an evil heartless and emotionless maniac that doesn’t know how to love or be loved when they…
Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (1910-1977) was a Peruvian military and politician, and the chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. Under this role, he leaded and executed the 1968 Coup d'État which overthrew the president Fernando Belaúnde Terry, who has been chosen democratically. The main argument was the exploitation of the oil industrial complex "La Brea y Pariñas" by the Internaional Petroleum Company (IPC), a subsidiary…
I’ll make this review unconventionally. The film has three genius sequences to open the show considering the fantastical poppet nature of the whole premise interacting in real life and the self-aware act of this being a film about them, the Muppets, the ones and only. First, we have a meta moment where they attend a theater and a single tracking shot presents all the attendees, seat by seat, interacting in a hilarious and disastrous fashion…
Ford tackles the historical legacy of the Earp lawmen in Tombstone Arizona, pairing Henry Fonda against Victor Mature, Linda Darnell against Cathy, with stunning landscapes of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, featuring a historically incorrect grave of James Earp (seemingly mixing up his information with Morgan Earp’s 1882 murder), and with Ford upping his game in the “American” western genre while being an absolute idiot on set in real life. Yes, all the ingredients are here.…
After Obayashi’s The Discarnates (1988), this was the second stop intended: a modern readaptation by an openly gay filmmaker, set in modern times and retaining key aspects of the original novel.
While I was watching this with my film buds, there was a moment in which I commented: “When I was a little kid, one of my favorite things to do during vacations…
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