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Bed and Sofa 1927
I see your “Bed and Sofa, a film by A. Room” and raise you “Emmanuelle, a film by Just Jaeckin”
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Pale Flower 1964
An ice-cold stare through a void beneath despair.
That said, how cute is it that the fearsome yakuza boss passes watermelon slices around to his henchmen like a day camp counselor? He brought a healthy snack for everyone!
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The Gulf of Silence 2020
What this film has in abundance that most UFO stories lack entirely is perspective. Whether they’re works of pure fiction or the sincere accounts of true believers, the vast majority of these kinds of stories tend to be either far too narrow, burrowing ever-deeper down a rabbit hole of esoteric conspiracy lore and self-inflating paranoia, or far too broad, placing humanity at the center of all cosmic happenings and taking for granted the quasi-theological assumption that the aliens could only…
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Bandits of Orgosolo 1961
With the possible exception of human beings, no animal makes for a better or more versatile filmic subject than the sheep. At a distance their stark white fluff can stand out against any landscape, while up close their blank, Bressonian faces can belie any emotion. A herd of them can be molded into whatever geometric configuration a given composition requires and adjusted to accommodate any degree of depth or breadth. Their state of constant visual and aural flux is lively…
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