"Photography is truth. Cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
My rating system is as coherent as the Rambo movie titles.
Crazy how Netflix funded and produced a great Richard Linklater movie, his best work in years, and then did absolutely zero marketing for it.
Me: Mom, can I have Before Sunset?
Mom: No, we have Before Sunset at home
Before Sunset at home:
This is why I watch movies.
This is cinema in its best and purest form. Apocalypse Now is perfect in every aspect of filmmaking and somehow is also able to transcend the medium with its soul (the result of a soul-crushing production) and its grandeur.
It serves as an argument both in favor of and against the auteur theory. Clearly not something you can achieve without someone who had a vision like Coppola did, but also definitely not a sustainable…