Favorite films

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  I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Oct 2018

  typically talkative as romanian cinema is, rather a theatre stage play than a cinematic piece. despite that an immensely intelligent film, where boundaries of reality and fiction are crossed automatically, immersed in the material. highly political, highly important. smart as a whip.

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  Showgirls 1995

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 26 Nov 2019

  Black Swans dirty, older sister.

  Verhoeven is the master of camp, and I wish he would have done more of those films in hollywood, in more genres. anyway, we are left alone with these few precious diamonds. Showgirls is one of the most meta-talked films of all times, production and reception history are unprecedented.

  after all the film is a good example of what the product can turn out to be - from expected hollywood blockbuster to failed box office…

Recent reviews

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  My Brother's Wedding 1983

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Feb 2008 1

  Charles Burnett's KILLER OF SHEEP successor is sometimes so playful, naive and self-deprecating that the film can largely be seen as an entertainment grenade. At the strategically cleverly dramatized end, MY BROTHERS WEDDING retains an eye for the social detail: our protagonist has to decide between the funeral of his rude yet charming friend and the wedding of his socially advanced brother, and thus also between the world of the street, of the “This is where ya came from!” and…

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  The Exiles 1961

  ★★★ Watched 09 Feb 2008

  Narrativized, naturalistic, but also staged documentary about the lives of Native American descendants in the urban Los Angeles of the 1960s. Kent MacKenzie's arrangement exudes charm and is ultimately an early form of the slacker film genre. The Indians are seen “hanging out” downtown. At one point a protagonist says significantly: "In prison or outside, it doesn't matter, I just do time." THE EXILES is a film full of alienation scenarios and rock'n'roll in aspic.

Popular reviews

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  Suzume 2022

  ★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2023 2

  you'd think Japan has a problem with earthquakes, tsunamies and volcanoes but it's more like with memory, trauma and gigantic red penises in the sky.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★ Watched 18 Jul 2023 13

  What does a Christopher Nolan do when he tackles a genre - the biopic - that is per definition hard to dissect into narrative trickery and tough to dance with in experimental technomaniacism?

  Oppenheimer is still a very palpable nolanesque film: it's dynamic, jumpy, galvanic, disjointed. Hoyte van Hoytema can at least get a little playful here and there with some fizzy-whizzing abstractions of nuclear reactions and floating star sightings. Ludwig Göransson is giving his best Hans Zimmer impersonation, finding…