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Oppenheimer 2023

★★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2023

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”
One of the best performances of the 21st century Cillian Murphy delivers here. Could’ve been a GOATed silent actor with that ability to show so many different emotions just through body language and facial expressions.
A Special Day 1977

★★★★ Watched 18 Jun 2023

Marcello Mastroianni would have been a great and fitting Father Intintola in The Sopranos

Fear and Desire 1952

★★½ Watched 27 May 2018 16

This is the typical film that you desire to make in film school. You have watched poetic, foreign directors, and now you want to copy their style and make your own film. When you finish the script, you are sure it’ll be a masterpiece. You have the whole film up in your mind. That camera angle will be like that. He’ll say that line like that. It will a masterpiece, no doubt. Then pre-production start, you find out that you…
Au Hasard Balthazar 1966

★★★★★ Watched 09 Jan 2018 19

Jean-Luc Godard said that Au Hasard Balthazar summed up the world.
So what sums up the world?
Life, death, happiness, sorrow, luck, injustice, beauty, silence, lonliness, violence, evil, abuse, awful people, good people.
The thing is that I was thinking of themes from Au Hasard Balthazar and they all fit to describe the world, and how it works. And those are main elements in this film, not just something that comes up once in a while.
Robert Bresson presents the…