Was rewatching Past Lives and of course the reunion scene that became an instant all-timer for me on first watch itself, apart from the feeling and camera movement between both of them that Celine Song had already described as sort of pulling a Kore-eda trick, this time I happened to notice more the sculpture art behind them that has a woman and man in a so near yet so far scenario with a separation between them that's not a literal…
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Contempt 1963
Never have I ever thought some film of Godard would dethrone Breathless and Vivre Sa Vie from my favourite of his works let alone coming close to them, but Contempt had other plans!
Contempt opens with a film-within-film or rather this film itself when I got to realize a minute later that the cinematographer in the opening tracking shot is none other than Raoul Coutard himself and while Francesca moves in getting filmed, a voiceover reads out the credits and…
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May December 2023
It's Julianne Moore's 63rd birthday today and I wasn't prepared at all going into May December on how she would turn the clock back to my favourite ever performance of her in Boogie Nights because if that film had empathetic motherhood craving character with lines like "She's a mother to all those who need love" and the problems that come with such aspirations due to her line of work, then here in this film, she is of mother's age to…
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Sapta Sagaradaache Ello - Side B 2023
First time: watched it as is
Second time: watched it as Noir
Third time: watched it (Telugu version) as Horror because literally don't know what to do if they all don't accept... missed watching Side A together but we cried a bucketload together for Side B
Besides her being beside me, the main excitement for repeat viewings of Side B forever for me will be the "Gaju Koodide" song sequence... I mean, just when I was feeling nothing can beat…
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Animal 2023
The thin or rather thick line between sex and making love in Animal... made me wonder how primally animalistic we all are, especially the men in this film's "man's world" and this film should've had a more fitting title because I am sure even animals can't say a dialogue as cruel and unempathetic as ~"Such audacity from you who change pads 4 times a month... look at me now I am changing 50 times a day" - other filmmakers could've…
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Once Upon a Time in America 1984
YOUR YOUNGEST AND STRONGEST WILL FALL BY THE SWORD
"Many years ago, I had a friend." "A dear friend." "It was a great friendship."
Spanning several decades, From the lives of poor children in 1918 Manhattan Jewish ghettos To the grown-up adults leading a rich life in the 1930s Prohibition era To the now old people leading a life both rich and poor in terms of memories and regrets accompanied by the violence of 1968 New York, Sergio Leone's Once…
