Nagisa Ōshima's most controversial movie out of a filmography of controversial movies and one of the most notorious films of all time. In the Realm of the Senses is a giant of a film. It's known for its graphic sex and violence, and even 50 years after its release it is still banned in Japan. The sex is unsimulated and at the forefront of nearly every scene of the film. It was one of the first art house films to…
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Satantango 1994
Sátántangó is one of the monoliths of cinema. A film that more people know the name of and even have an opinion of than have actually seen. It's known almost exclusively for its length, which is 7 hours and 12 minutes. It's far from the only movie of this length, and far from the longest there is to find, and yet this film has become by far the most notorious film above 4 hours. The overbearing amount of conversation around…
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What's Up, Doc? 1972
Barbra Streisand is a god in this. She's absolutely hilarious and drop-dead gorgeous. It's entirely her movie and her best performance. That's all there is to say.
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Red Violation 1980
This movie has no business being as well directed as it is. I was expecting the usual low-quality filmmaking of most pinku films but with some cool scenes, but what I got was the opposite. It's a fairly simple movie with little going on in the plot, but the camera work and atmosphere are so good that it turns this into a really memorable movie. There are tons of long takes, shots of the streets in Tokyo, and the movie…
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Do the Right Thing 1989
"It's a free country isn't it?"
"I should knock you out for saying that dumb shit alone!" -
Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death. The government is corrupt, and we're on so many drugs with the radio on and the curtains drawn. I open up my wallet and it's full of blood.
