not a Talking Heads fan (yet) so I really just enjoyed this as Demme showing people how to shoot a concert never wasting a shot, making it look vibrant and pretty, while this mad man on stage tried to move the music out of me. I'll tell you, he did.
written on the notes of "Life During Wartime" - Talking Heads
The end credits still haunt me. Poor Laura can't even find peace in the afterlife. There's nothing more to say.
I believe my spirit is trapped in the black lodge
This does feel like it could've been a 145 min movie, but it's still a damn tv show. What's it doing on here? I'm only rating this cause, well, duh, look at my profile picture.
a family drama at its core, a huge part of American history and possibly THE movie that revolutionized story structure and narration. Only successors couldn't count on Al Pacino and De Niro...
God knew this was special and provided all the light himself to cinematographer Gordon Willis.
200 plus minutes of joy. You don't need 100 cuts per minute and you most certainly don't need to alterate the pacing of a film when it plays like a beautiful novel and lets you sink into it.
Addio!
written on the notes of "The Godfather Waltz" - Nino Rota
this obsession with limited part series has to end right now. This could've so easily been a movie and the most important one of our time at that. It feels like a movie, so much that when an episode ends you wonder why the fuck they're stopping right there and not in a way that leaves you hanging and eager to put the next one on like in actual tv shows, but in a way that really bothers you and…
Movies and shows about serial killers can't hold a candle to the level of dirty violence and pure psychopathy displayed in this masterpiece.
I was going to write this big review I'd started to think of while the credits rolled on the notes of Nino Rota's iconic composition, mostly because I never wrote one for many masterpieces I logged before the letterboxd mania that gave birth to millions of improvised movie critics caught me; then I saw a couple of reviews from people who like me decided to rewatch The Godfather with their families on Easter Sunday.
And I was taught a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man...
written on the notes of "Love Theme" - Nino Rota
movies make me so happy, man.
Imagine a more grounded version of The Great Escape, less cheerful, more thrilling. The whole sequence of digging, gettin down into the tunnel to elaborate the escape and then going back up to their cellmates was just incredible, it felt like I was there with them because it was never interrupted. This movie made me happy and then messed me up. That's all I need to say. I don't think I've seen many films better than Le Trou.