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  • Face to Face
  • Violent Saturday
  • Zorns Lemma
  • Godard's Passion

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  • Face to Face

    ★★★★★

  • Violent Saturday

    ★★★★★

  • 7th Heaven

    ★★★★★

  • The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

    ★★★★

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  • Face to Face

    Face to Face 1967

    ★★★★★ Added 1

    FOCO #8-9 EDITORIAL

    This issue is dedicated to the Brazilian Cinematheque.

    SERGIO SOLLIMA
    RICHARD FLEISCHER
    THE TWO AVANT-GARDES

    (2016-2021)

    * * *

    Neither criticism nor the criteria of a terminology - the test of the philosophical theory of ideas in art - evolves in response to external comparison, but they take shape immanently, in a development of the formal language of the work itself, which brings out its content at the expense of its effect. It is, moreover, precisely the…

  • Violent Saturday

    Violent Saturday 1955

    ★★★★★ Added

    TO END MISE EN SCÈNE ONCE AND FOR ALL
    by Bruno Andrade

    – And Jerry Lewis... I've seen his last movie, Hardly working, which I think has not appeared here. And to me, he's a great direc-- he's more a painter, maybe, than a director. He probably doesn't even know [it]. That's a great, to me... first, he's a continuator of the Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton and Chaplin tradit-- he's working with space, he's not tracking like all those…

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  • Heaven's Gate

    Heaven's Gate 1980

    ★★★★★ Added

    Bruno Andrade presents Heaven's Gate for the Lucky Star Film Club.

    I'd like to start by saying something that is probably decisive in Cimino's work: it is a work that cannot be feared by the spectator that wishes to venture in and somehow confront it.

    This could partly explain the hostility with which Heaven's Gate was received at the time, but I believe this concerns an even bigger problem that ends up causing the reception of Cimino's work as a…

  • The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

    The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 1896

    ★★★★ Added

    MYTHS OF ORIGIN AND DESTINATION [Parts I - III]
    By Lucas Baptista

    [Translator's note: although we preferred to translate the word "destino" as "destination", it also means "destiny".]

    [Due to Letterboxd's length limitations, this essay was split in two. It continues here]

    There are at least two views regarding mythical thought: we may call them the negative view and the positive view. The first one sees mythical thought as a mistake, a distortion or disfigurement of reality; it considers that…

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