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MadcapLaughs
Cinema Addict - 1200 Films Ranked
Member Since: Jul 10, 2008
Location: Southampton, UK
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95 Charulata (1964) - Oct 30, 2009
Mini-Review: Charulata is an extremely elegant film - the gentle camerawork and gorgeous cinematography, the lyricism and wonderful use of music that makes the film feel so alive, the fantastic understated performances. Ray treats the characters with a tender, humanist touch allowing them to grow and develop before us, lending them our sympathy and always treating them with a sense of dignity: characters are never turned in to the story's playthings. It is a beautiful, wonderful film.
96 The Color of Pomegranates (1968) - Mar 09, 2010
Mini-Review: Is the film about artists - about their want for someone to connect to (the images of the muse and the lover serve as some of the most striking)? Their struggle for inspiration? Their innner thoughts? No matter what it all means it was all incredibly beautiful. Its lack of focus on plot and reusing of Sofiko Chiaureli in multiple major roles make it all feel like a dream and make me think that, considering Tarkovsky admired Parajanov so, surely this was a huge influence on Tarkovsky's Mirror.
100 The Red Shoes (1948) - Dec 23, 2009
Mini-Review: The centrepiece 15 minute ballet sequence is a terrific journey - physically, emotionally, artistically. Ultimately Vicky must make a choice between art and love and yet to leave either would be disastrous. It is love that now fuels her art, and her art that gives her life meaning. The set up for this choice is contrived but to complain about this would be insignificant as Powellburger bring it to the screen with such grace you can't move your eyes, nor your heart, away from the screen.
95 Apocalypse Now (1979) - Feb 15, 2010
Mini-Review: The hypnotic power of Apocalypse Now. It lingers, intense, bright and bold. Striking in its every detail. Its every movement signaling another step deeper in to the heart of darkness. Perhaps the film is confused in its last act at moments, perhaps, but in this confusion it only furthers its maddening hum. The beat of the chopper blades circling around the room. The drug addled strumming of The Doors. It is beautiful, and horrific, and hair raising, and captivating.
86 Cowards Bend the Knee (2003) - Oct 12, 2010
Mini-Review: I love the aesthetic of this film, how it crosses silent film techniques with low budget filmmaking and then edits it at a million miles an hour jumping and flickering around as if this is all in someone's head jumping from thought to thought on a whim and repeating moments, getting stuck, focusing in on something &c. Cowards is both incredibly fun and very disturbing, even nightmarish, joyously demented, delightfully odd.
 
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