Cinema from the East
Do you know why old movies were better? We've forgotten how to light things.
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Funny People 2009
Becoming marginally famous has really made you an asshole.
Just put this on and chill, man 🍹
Nice soundtrack, Adam Sandler is goood.
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In the Cut 2003
Heterosexual desire from women's perspective and the suspended violence irrevocably associated with it are rarely done better in film. The phenomenology ie the way you simply experience the movie puts In The Cut in great company — films that offer the closest, incisive look into life. Jane Campion's gaze is warm, sympathetic and detached, genius at the same time.
IMO Meg Ryan's, whose most well known work is situated in the New York of dream and fairytale or at the…
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The Age of Innocence 1993
Society can be so disgusting when it dissuades you, insidiously, from what you love most. It's so so cruel.
So can love not survive it?Perhaps it can. But just as memory or "abstractly, serenely.........a complete vision of all that he had missed", as Scorsese puts it. Cinema at its most heartbreakingly poetic.
Just say I'm old fashioned. That should be enough. Says Newland Archer to his son as old memories of his age of innocence come rushing in —…