in the beginning of 2018, i finished NGE and watched End of Evangelion for the first time.
it was the lowest point in my life. i was out of rehab for an amphetamine addiction, was recovering from a mental breakdown, my grandfather who i adored had just passed away, my father was deported and i had to relocate to a new state, my mother lost her job and now i live beneath the poverty line, i am thousands in debt,…
channeling the raw, unfettered yet sexless passion of films like Lean's Brief Encounter and Wong's In the Mood for Love, Le Notti Bianche is a film that grabs your heart and slowly gives it a squeeze until you have no choice but to laugh and then cry your fucking eyes out.
it accomplishes this through the sheer magic Visconti puts on display here. every shot composition is framed immaculately to give a heightened sense of reality. the lighting bursts from…
just as godawful as i remember it being. rewatched it just bc Elvis looks decent but Jesus Christ. legitimately one of the worst films of all time. the whole Can-Can/Come As You Are whatever medley is an alltime low-point for all of cinema. tone-deaf, brash, confident in all the wrong ways, it comes off as someone with the most colorful and worst outfit you've ever seen and they're feeling themselves but you just want to tell them to go home…
for people who don't know shit about the plot of this movie, or its historical significance to India, let me try and explain the concept through an American lens.
RRR is a historical film in the sense that like what if president Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist John Brown (two men who have NEVER met but were born within 5 years apart from each other AND lived in the same state AND are well-regarded due to their respective paths to end…
unrated director's cut.
Halloween II is a revelation, not just an auteristic exercise that's different from any Halloween film before it, it's the culmination of the ENTIRE franchise, taking elements from EVERY film before it.
it's a harrowing deep dive into the psyche of broken people, people worn away by cruelty, abuse, violence, and evil, wearing them down to become worse than the nightmares that so haunt them. this film is a completely unhinged, grotesque exploration of the darkest corners…
