Here's a true anecdote that happened in a Mexican cinema. Source: Trust me, bro. But it happened; I know it firsthand.
I know a female ticket seller from a franchise called Cinepolis that worked in the theater itself for those unable to previously buy the tickets online. A couple (a man and a woman) arrived to the theater, were looking at the choices, and finally were attended by the ticket seller. "Could we have two tickets for It Ends with…
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Capturing the pain of a whole nation through the eyes of a family is an insurmountable achievement that doesn't even make sense in my head, and yet here we are; sensationalism, images of suffering or battlefield carnage are not required where you're prioritizing the human condition over politics or Western standards of "cinematic entertainment". This is peak structuralist cinema and non-linear storytelling, playing with the perception of time in order to emphasize the relevance of a…
Intermittently tangential, semi-autobiographical Taiwanese masterpiece where Hsiao- Hou warmly welcomes knowing and not-knowing eyes to a timeless Taiwan while deeply reflecting on the repercussions of death, impulsive youth, culture and tradition in a cataclysm of psychological clashes. Once the paternal chair becomes empty, it is impossible to glance at it without a feeling of loss and nostalgia, while simultaneously feeling the urge that someone eventually will have to fill the shoes of the lost ones. Similarly to Edward Yang, the…
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Experimental celluloid for Centennial postmodernism, where the disassociation between audiovisual stimuli and the abstract interpretation of language in written form opens an infinite number of subjective possibilities, depriving it from a more abstract purpose. The disconnection from the emotional statement can be grand, resulting in an alienation that outstays its welcome. As prolific as Gatten might be, and hence as volatile in quality, it is utmost imperative for experimental filmmakers to exist in the modern age…
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-Government of Iran: What is this, Kamran Shirdel? This is offensive! You're fired from your government job, and we're also banning this!
-Government of Iran (7 years later): Well, seven years have passed. Just release this so I can get it out of my mind. What's the worsse that could happen?
[Documentary wins a national prize for best documentary]
-Government of Iran (1 second later): No, no no... Ban it again!
The day Ryūnosuke Akutagawa conceived…
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R.I.P. Corey Yuen (1951 - 2022)
Uncut Hong Kong 97-minute version
A eulogy I wrote at my Discord server before venturing into this supremely made action extravaganza:
“It is deeply painful to hear about such a great loss in the landscape of Hong Kong cinema, one that paved the way for so many relevant and renowned directors and crew members…
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“A woman under the influence of Alzheimer disease”. Halfway through, the title becomes less of an emotional punchline and more a vivid nightmare any man will wish never to go through. In spite of a poorly written screenplay and some Hallmark-like technical qualities scattered throughout, Christie consolidates herself as a queen of acting regardless of the material at hand and embodies potent emotional manifestations of a memory that desperately tries to recollect, rebuild, remember... Names…
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Swedish mastermind of silent drama Victor Sjöstrom adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel of the same name with an uncompromising and unapologetic approach to fundamentalist puritanism, especially the one that proliferated in Boston, based on deeming everything “non-pure” as “Satanic”, physical punishments and torture, executions, and extreme pharisaism. Lillian Gish shines more brightly than anyone present in this film (who did her lines in English), not disregarding Hanson’s appealing theatrical expressions and mannerisms (who did his…
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Arnold can make something substantially better than Boyhood (2014) with a cow, which was not even her first animal of preference (a chicken). I have no intentions of diminishing animal life below that of humans, as all Creation reflects a fraction of God’s “personality”, His entire essence. Rightfully so, this intimate cinéma vérité approach does two things particularly well:
1) It doesn’t opt for carnage sensationalism concerning the meat and milk industry…
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Lieberman is indeed an unknown name even among specific horror circles, and without any previous experience from me, this seems to be his most experimental concept-wise. Starring Zalman King, a very good director notorious for always directing morally acceptable family movies and series, owner of the creepiest pervert stare in cinema, carries the film on his shoulders and collapses as the woeful miscast he…
“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on…
An auteuristic statement at the end of the day, honestly and profoundly. Grandiose non-formalist disaster acted like a midnight Cinemax film of the early 2000s restrained by its own postmodernist ambition and yet tragically misunderstood by its bold cascade of utopian philosophies. My beloved fiancée correctly and eloquently spotted out the correct interpretation of the Purgatory by Coppola represented by monuments of stone while we were at the theater; time indeed spares no one and its theoretical control to stop…