Francois Truffaut came into my world in the most brilliant way with not a hint of warning. I had started the second year of my undergrad a week late and barely had enough time to pick up a syllabus before I found myself in a screening room for Jules and Jim. The film left absolutely no impression on me after my initial viewing, or so I thought. As the months passed, however, I found myself reminiscing upon the story that…
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Mulholland Drive 2001
****Warning, this is less a review of Mulholland Dr. and more a thank you letter to David Lynch for changing my life*****
No piece of art has ever had as profound an impact on my life than Mulholland Dr. I say, in a very literal way, that Mulholland Dr. changed my life.I had never looked at cinema as an art form before, I actually had hardly looked at cinema before. I grew up in a single parent home with a…
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Drive My Car 2021
As a major fan of the "nothing really happens" subgenere of cinema coupled with my lean toward a better appreciation of non-english language-speaking films over English language films, I expected to completely adore DRIVE MY CAR. Add to that the philosophical bend with which the film explores weighty issues such as death, grief, guilt, fidelity, marriage, purpose, art, and generational trauma, I expected DRIVE MY CAR to be my favorite film of the year. DRIVE MY CAR wasn't my favorite…
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A Letter to Three Wives 1949
When the conversation of films that produce the greatest sense of tension and anxiety, I have never seen A LETTER TO THREE WIVES mentioned though it absolutely should be. The film begins with Addie Rose, never shown in the film and only known to audiences through the sultry VoiceOver of Celeste Holm, speaking about her "friends" in the neighborhood and the letter she has written to three of them to share the information that she has left town with one…
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Trespassing Bergman 2013
I'm not sure I'll ever see something as devastating as watching Michael Haneke react to Ingmar Bergman rating Haneke's THE PIANO TEACHER "four stars, not five" by saying "pity" and wanting to leave the room.
That bit broke my heart.
