Mini-Review: Extremelly conflicting when considering how much enjoyment can be gained from it, but immensenly impressive achievement in capturing the most arduous and tedious of peasant life. I found it especially interesting how the use of silence is progressed throughout the film, in techniques of the present and past age, and narratively speaking.

Mini-Review: It can seem to unfold slowly, but it's the scope of the narrative and attention to detail that makes this work so well. A remarkably well done and modern suspense film from an old master of it.

Mini-Review: So I went into this with an understanding of a consensus that Soderbergh's entry was irrelevant [partly true in consideration to the main theme, but I still got enjoyment out of it], Antonioni was trash [Boobs are aplenty, but it offers characteristically ambiguous and succulent text/characters. It just doesn't express itself fully in the brief time], & that Kar Wai Wong was the highlight [actually the dullest entry, a kind of In the Mood For Love spasm with no bite]. Hmm.

Mini-Review: Consistently blurs the line between reality, an inside look in the movie business, & the reality that movies create in the most exhilarating and entertaining way possible. Peter O'Toole is his usual fantastic self as a megalomaniac. Easy to enjoy, but not so much as to be taken for granted.

Mini-Review: Deserved classic status. Kathleen Byron's turn towards the second half approachs something of the level of German Expressionism, and like everything else here, it's deliriously excellent. The cinematography and use of technicolor is un-fucking-believable.