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Late Night Trains 1975
"No one likes the idea of a totalitarian state, but..."
-Intellectual on TrainDystopian horror thriller revealing a world eroded by fascism.
When, amongst intellectuals, democracy is still not the one and only possible form of government; when certain backwards dinosaurs still hoot nazi patter like it's 1942; and when even Santa Clause can get robbed on the streets without any entailing consequences; you should at least suspect you (still) have a problem with fascism.
*minor (obvious) spoilers ahead*
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The Fabelmans 2022
La mia recensione: www.ondacinema.it/film/recensione/the-fabelmans.html
"The Fabelmans" può idealmente essere considerato un "double bill" insieme a "West Side Story". Per quanto apparentemente distanti, sono ambedue progetti personali a lungo desiderati e dedicati ai genitori: il primo rifà un amatissimo classico del musical, quest'ultimo è il più volte annunciato e finora mai realizzato racconto dell'infanzia e della famiglia di Steven Spielberg e che, nell'idea originale, avrebbe dovuto avere tra i protagonisti Richard Dreyfuss, il suo primo feticcio attoriale. Entrambi i film per…
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One Way or Another 1976
Un sogno erotico e una preveggenza.
Dopo aver dato il bacio della morte al Partito Comunista con La classe operaia va in paradiso, Petri si occupa della Democrazia Cristiana qui presentata in un'incarnazione luciferina. Vecchi politici che occupano posti di potere in modo tentacolare, presiedono enti e commissioni, piazzano i figli, organizzano correnti interne per abbattere i compagni, tentano di ammazzare il lavoro e nel privato, in modo maniacale e morboso ma anche autoassolutorio, si attaccano alla croce e alla…
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The Batman 2022
Around 2 hours and 15 minutes in, Batman says “This isn’t over yet,” and I straight-up wanted to kill myself.
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The Batman 2022
it was ok, but honestly, I have zero desire to watch it again
*watched snyder's cut 4 times*
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The Little Things 2021
Rami Malek punching his car window in frustration after spending an entire day with Denzel Washington following a theatrical Jared Leto Torgo walk his way from his home to a strip club and back, is an accurate representation of me when the credits to this film started. I’m tempted to click the “I’ve seen this film before” button, cause honestly we all pretty much have.
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Last Night in Soho 2021
I felt that this was very unfocused and had many idiotic plot holes and cliches. There were elements in the filmmaking and in the story that I enjoyed, but I left the theater scratching my head.
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The Parallax View 1974
One of the most meticulously staged, carefully composed films of the ‘70s—much is made of Gordon Willis’ mastery of shadow and vanishing light, a tool to shade motivation and highlight a moral murkiness, but it is Alan Pakula’s patience that lifts this into rarefied territory. The recurring motif of ant-like miniaturedom—Beatty’s character trapped in the dam as water crashes through the man made valley; assassination seen from a great height; figures squeezed into airplane bathrooms or tiny apartments and offices;…
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Two-Lane Blacktop 1971
There is no end to Two-Lane Blacktop. There is no end to the restlessness of the hauntingly desolate, open road. The landscape whips by in streaks of greens, browns, and grays—a blurry rendering of pastoral America. The introspective silence, the apathy, the loneliness is echoed by the magnitude of the journey, of the winding highways—an infinite present, where “future” is a destination too abstract to anticipate and “past” a place too obscured by distance and time to seem relevant.
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