I saw Alfred Hitchcock's take on Marie Belloc Lowndes's novel a few years ago and it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. I wasn't much into silent movies yet. The Lodger was the first time I understood a silent movie could be great and it's one of my favorites.
Quite different from the novel, it still manages to give a disturbing and lovely feeling altogether, just like the novel.
Uncle Alfred was ahead of his time and already displaying…
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
I'm choosing blasphemy for Christmas and I'm going to say that, on my fourth or fifth viewing, I'm completely devastated in seeing Laura Palmer suffering worse than Jesus Christ. Mel Gibson must've been a Twin Peaks fan.
watch it always with the Missing Pieces. It becomes all so much more dream-like, or rather nightmarish.
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The Apartment 1960
so beautiful. I'd seen this only once over a year ago but I would often think about it. We just don't make them like this anymore. Characters that feel real, witty and funny but never dumb dialogue, a heart. Very interesting personalities. And with a photography so gorgeous it seems like it's trying to compete with the wonderful Shirley MacLaine.
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Se7en 1995
it doesn't get older and you appreciate more and more details over time.
Brad Pitt's perfomance keeps getting funnier.
It always manages to stay entertaining and feed you one great scene after one great scene and never doing so by giving you the impression it's overdoing it.
I need to see it at least seven times.edit: just noticed I saw it again last time almost exactly a year ago
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Memories of Murder 2003
I don't understand movies. I saw Memories of Murder over a year ago. I thought it was really good and the last shot was haunting. Now I started to have goosebumps much before the end and almost cried at the last shot.
I liked it much more overall this time around, from start to finish. It isn't too heavy, it has its funny/over the top moments, but when it turns heavy it's really damn heavy. The scene of the little… -
Your Name. 2016
what's there to say when something warms your heart, breaks it and then heals it over the course of 107 minutes?
Not to dismiss animation, I've seen some beautiful animated movies, but I never once cared it was an animated movie, or thought it could've been a great live action film, and dare I say, I sort of forgot it was animated along the way. The lighting is beautiful, the animation is done so that you could swear there's a… -
Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
The end credits still haunt me. Poor Laura can't even find peace in the afterlife. There's nothing more to say.
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Phantom Thread 2017
I believe us, as human beings, haven't done enough to deserve something this beautiful.
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The Master 2012
always the greatest delight to see this masterpiece. One of the very best movies of all time, no exaggerations required. And definitely one of the very very very best looking movies of all time.
PTA's movies always have great cinematography, but what happened here? Did he go to heaven to shoot this one? I mean have you seen the light in just about any goddamn shot? I will fight anyone who tells me this couldn't be compared to Barry Lyndon.… -
The Irishman 2019
once again (and again) I'm reminded of how important (and mandatory) it is to give movies another chance, especially if I hardly remember them and if for some reason those vague memories aren't so positive either. I had this logged with 3 stars. 3 stars.
I don't dare comparing it to a classic that stood the test of time, but The Irishman feels like Scorsese's biggest accomplishment in the crime/mob genre, a spiritual sequel of Goodfellas that maybe does it… -
Napoleon 1927
my 1000th movie on letterboxd!! I figured it had to be special.
the ultimate moving painting and live-action novel, accompanied by grandiose music that never leaves you wandering for a moment.
The first three hours might easily be the best three hours of anything ever created since time was invented, starting from little Napoleon (Vladimir Roudenko, unbelievable performance) showing his leadership and genius since the age of nine, guiding his 10 soldiers (kids) in a battle against an army of… -
Lost Highway 1997
It's remarkable how David Lynch has found a way to create terrifying worlds that you somehow want to live inside of. Also allow me to say there are few movies playing with light and dark so beautifully as this does. I think the cinematographer also worked on Twin Peaks - The Return; checks out.
Robert Blake said in an interview that he played the devil in this film, or that's what he thought, admitting that neither him or anybody else…