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Life, and Nothing More... 1992
even with terrible death and pain constantly just out of frame this is filled with such an overwhelming commitment to the inherent beauty not of life itself necessarily, but in living and in continuing to live. there’s something so moving about the simplicity of not halting everything in order to grieve until you’re far enough removed from your pain, but allowing yourself to continuously grieve while moving forward
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Vertigo 1958
cinema is an art of possession. it's where histories, traumas, desires take root in pre-existing forms which have little significance on their own, but are made powerful through relation to things beyond themselves. suddenly color takes on the weight of the supernatural and infinite depths are opened up through mere movement.
these abstractions find a home in representations that live and breathe on their own, but that can be contorted into the image of something less tangible. taking on new…
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Frank Stein 1972
Post-montage. Brings cinema closer to music or painting than anything else I’ve seen I think
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Belly 1998
this owes a lot to it’s influences, but it still stands as one of the most thoroughly unique pieces of american cinema post new hollywood. it’s an actual crime williams couldn’t get another feature made after this. what an immense talent.
couldn’t stop thinking about edward yang during the near pitch black shootout with ox
