One of John Carpenter’s best, this is a really REALLY creepy movie. If you enjoy Lovecraftian themes then this is a movie you definitely don’t want to miss out on.
A reality is just what we tell each other it is. Sane and insane could easily switch places, if the insane were to become the majority. You would find yourself locked in a padded cell, wondering what happened to the world.
The age of camaraderie has seemingly passed on, the struggles of this life hidden under the unimportant.
We fight over nothing and ignore the inevitable problems that loom ahead.
We argue about anything and agree on the pointless ideas that used to be so common.
We kill each other, both in soul and body, and save the most basic and savage aspects of our mind.
We complicate ourselves, we separate ourselves, we divide ourselves into these tiny pieces until those pieces are worth nothing.
The age of empathy has died, the great struggles of this life hidden under apathy.
The more individualistic and consumerist driven a society is the more authoritarian their leader are going to inevitably be, like children begging for a father figure around them so they can continue to be carefree and inconsequential.
Now, this is a horror movie, not Cloverfield. John Carpenter’s The Thing remains to this day one of the greatest and most engaging pieces of horror movie making that has ever been created.
Trust is a tough thing to come by these days.
This one was such a letdown, crammed with all possible movie tropes (Helicopter crashes and only the three main characters survive? Come the fuck on. Army tanks in the city but the bridge was blown up earlier? Who brought them, the Ghost of Kiev? Stupid, stupid, stupid), add shakycam which I am definitely not a fan of. Not a bad movie to watch with friends if you’re into CGI stuff (and have friends), but … yeah. I remember watching this in theatre when I was younger and dumber and I might have enjoyed it more that time. JJ Abrams trully is a fraud.
I loved the black dude robbing a store, in a 2024 movie he would have been a white fat male with a MAGA hat. Times really have changed, and not always for better.
Guys? I don’t feel so good.
Another nearly impossible-to-find-with-English-subtitles film, but what a film!
Why are you disgusted?
I don’t know. I mean I do, but don’t want to tell you yet.
Personality traits are strongly deterministic. Changing personality is almost impossible, and the best bet is probably to select creative children and discipline them, for the off chance that some of them will a) be truly creative, and b) be truly disciplined, and eventually find the gold, c) children who are both.
One of Fellini’s best, and there are a lot of them. I Vitelloni is a more realistic and sober Amarcord in black and white.
This town is blind to art. It’s so hard, being perpetually misunderstood. My friends don’t even understand me. They only care about material things. They live their sordid lives, thinking of women and money. I feel so alone. And the winter is awful. It’s endless in this town. I’m so full of sadness and anguish. At midnight the town goes dark. How can an artist feed his demons? How can he live in this silence?
I know that opinions on Yuriy Ozerov’s Stalingrad are divided, but I kinda liked it. Memorable characters, good action.
Always remember that hippos control the media.
An artful exploration of life, by the same Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami.
What happens to the good and the evil on Judgment day?
That’s obvious: the good go to Hell, and the evil go to Heaven. Is that right?
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Religion, mysticism, folk tales, customs, life, and beautiful music in this Sergei Parajanov film about the Hutsul people. Think of it as Romeo and Juliet, only with better music, better setup, better colors and better director.
As the complexity of civilisation stretches beyond the horizon of human comprehension all ideologies enter superposition in terms of explanatory reach. The rest is a matter of aesthetics.
I wonder if guns will ever be imbued with the same mythic significance as swords. There is certainly a romance around some firearms, but it doesn’t yet feel cosmic in the way a sword does.
I am feeling calmer about the future. I have come to realise that (almost) nothing is permanent and that it is OK to change your mind. I think the important thing is to at least head in some direction, even you come to realise it is the wrong direction. Sometimes making the wrong decision can put into focus the right decision and help you reach a conclusion you might never have reached if you hadn’t have made the initial decision. Sure, it can be tiring when you realise that you’ve headed the wrong way and that you need to double back, but that is better than staying in one spot and remaining stranded there.
One of the movies I absolutely have to watch yearly (and if you’re studying filmmaking, this is your quintessential Holy Book), Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera is a remarkable film, way ahead of its times. It is also a film about film-making, shots of the city and the Man (Vertov’s brother and cinematographer, Mikhail Kaufman) are interspersed with images of the film being edited by Vertov’s wife, Elizaveta Svilova. There are occasional views of the audience in a cinema reacting to events on the screen, watching the very film that they are appearing in.
The film was shot with a French-made Debrie Parvo ‘L’ camera, introduced by André Debrie in 1926.
Remember that for Godard cinema “begins with Griffith and ends with Kiarostami”. A shocking hymn to life, a vision in front of which it is difficult to remain indifferent. Taste of Cherry is in fact an extremely fascinating movie, it walks on the edge of melancholic resignation, it seems to evolve in step with its spectator including the author, taking a path that is essentially everyone’s own, impersonal and universal. An extremely philosophical film and one of the best.
I’ll tell you something that happened to me. It was just after I got married. We had all kinds of troubles. I was so fed up with it that I decided to end it all. One morning, before dawn, I put a rope in my car. My mind was made up. I wanted to kill myself. I set off for Mianeh. This was in 1960. I reached the mulberry tree plantations. I stopped there. It was still dark. I threw the rope over a tree but it didn’t catch hold. I tried once, twice but to no avail. So then I climbed the tree and tied the rope on tight. Then I felt something soft under my hand. Mulberries. Deliciously sweet mulberries. I ate one. It was succulent, then a second and third. Suddenly, I noticed that the sun was rising over the mountaintop… What sun, what scenery, what greenery! All of a sudden, I heard children heading off to school. They stopped to look at me. They asked me to shake the tree. The mulberries fell and they ate. I felt happy. Then I gathered some mulberries to take them home. My wife was still sleeping. When she woke up, she ate mulberries as well. And she enjoyed them too. I had left to kill myself and I came back with mulberries. A mulberry saved my life.
