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  The Travelling Players 1975

  ★★★★★ Added by Edgar Cochran 44

  ***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.***

  Never before had cinema presented such an effective, original and cinematically influential perspective concerning the Second World War. Extensive Greek master Theodoros Angelopoulos achieves international attention thanks to his second and best chapter in A Trilogy of History, one of the most ambitious films in the entire history of moviemaking, and undeniably one of the best and most powerful war films of all time. The mysticism is overabundant, the technical…

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  Ulysses' Gaze 1995

  ★★★★½ Watched by Edgar Cochran 18 Jan 2018 5

  The one and only celluloid project that silenced a shocked audience with an angry and disappointed Angelopoulos not winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Ulysses' Gaze is one of the most beautiful and honest love letters to the cathartic power of cinema as an art form in the individual.

  The "film" that 'A' is seeking symbolizes that such film will exist as long as the director is aware of the existence of his audience first, and the existence of the…

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  Saludos Amigos 1942

  ★★★ Watched by Edgar Cochran 30 Mar 2022 7

  Correctly labeled previously as imperialist propaganda and reportedly made as "an attempt to improve international relations between the U.S. and Latin America", this is the second anthology effort of WWII Disney, and one more among many during the decade. This is an important precursor for the amazing, yet still stereotypically incorrect The Three Caballeros (1944), and consists of four short stories, most of them "educational" and downright uneventful.

  The main issue with this long-feature effort is that it sells other…

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  Aquarela do Brasil 1942

  ★★★½ Watched by Edgar Cochran 30 Mar 2022 8

  Even the title wasn't translated and was left in its Brazilian sexiness!

  Muito obrigado!

  José "Zé" Carioca was created by Brazilian cartoonist José Carlos de Brito, and it is one of the characters I wished strongly had kept alive in the immortal, classic Disney canon collection such as Mickey, Donald and Goofy. A predecessor for the technically landmark exercise that would be later known as The Three Caballeros (1944), which only fatal flaw was to improperly show Latin American cultures…

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  Love Exposure 2008

  ★★★★★ Watched by Edgar Cochran 12 Jan 2014 57

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  WARNING. The following movie has:

  1) 237 minutes in length
  2) The movie title appearing after one hour of running time
  3) A drag
  4) Tosatsu
  5) Kung-fu
  6) Sex
  7) Genital gore
  8) Ultraviolence
  9) Lesbians
  10) A "Virgin Mary"
  11) Erections
  12) Kung Fu butt-kicking female teens
  13) Psychotic menopausal females
  14) Pornographic furniture
  15) A Joshuu 701-gô: Sasori (1972) tribute with a pinky film spoof character called "Miss Scorpion"
  16) Love
  17) Romance
  18) "Exposure"
  19) Lust…

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  Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989

  ★★★★★ Added by Edgar Cochran 35

  Imagine that Luis Buñuel and David Lynch had intense homosexual encounters in a cheap motel in Tokyo under the influence of hallucinogens. Imagine that, after that, both (yes, both) conceived a single son. Finally, imagine that the aforementioned son made a movie and that every single scene in that movie was directed by him when he had an orgasm smoking opium.

  That's Tetsuo, the true Iron Man, so the hell with the Marvel character. Tsukamoto takes us back to the…