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PerryStroika
Cinema Addict - 1487 Films Ranked
Member Since: Sep 20, 2010
Location: USA
Featured Reviews
64 T6 Labyrinth (1986) - Sep 21, 2010
"Clumsy, awkward and hamfisted in some respects (the script, the misjudged musical numbers, too many characters), Jim Henson's post Dark Crystal effort still boasts some of the most fascinating and imaginative puppetry work and set design ever seen in a feature. Highlights, the Escher relativity scene, the Fire Gang dance. Unique and worth seeing."
91 T10 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) - Sep 20, 2010
"Anyone who doubts Fritz Lang's stature as a technical innovator on par with Eisenstein or Hitchcock needs to see this, particularly the way he uses sound to suggest eerie shadowy presences off screen. Mabuse is heard but not seen. Then there is the hidden ticking time bomb. Hasn't aged a day. "
56 T3 Cosmopolis (2012) - Feb 09, 2013
"What does a star studded cast (Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti), a certifiable genius writer director, a story from an acclaimed American novelist and 20 million dollars get you? An hour and forty minutes of confusing, elliptical dialogue filled with didactic lectures about capitalism. Movies cannot just talk about their ideas; they have to dramatize them."
71 T9 Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Mar 04, 2013
"I felt ambivalently about this the first time I saw it; the nonlinear storytelling confused me, and I was irritated by the sheer "Frenchness" of it, a kind of pretentiousness. The second time was better. Riva is incredible and Okada is not bad either. While somewhat overbearing in parts (the stilted, stylized dialogue, particularly the ending), this is still one of the few films I've seen with the density and texture of a novel. "
76 T10 Avatar (2009) - Sep 20, 2010
"A technological marvel. A fantasy that burrows deep into the mythic layers of the American psyche, a sort of Dances with Wolves with blue cat people. Some people call it cliche, but a classic is just a cliche done right."
90 T10 Cure (1997) - Aug 28, 2011
"One of the most scary things I have ever seen. Kurosawa reminds me of Cronenberg a bit in that his work feels genuinely dangerous. I am always a bit scared of what he is going to show me, but I cannot stop watching. "
82 T10 Tôkyô sonata (2008) - Sep 20, 2010
"Begins as a sensitively imagined Ozu-esque family drama. Then veers off into left field. The pressures on the family all come to a head during one night of hell, and each of the characters suffers a terrifying loss of identity. The final scene is beautiful and unexpected, making it a film about the the totally unexplained eruption of beauty into drab, ordinary life. Surprising and moving. "
70 T9 Point Blank (1967) - Sep 22, 2010
"A sort of weird psychedelic existentialist gangster movie. Makes me think of Jean Melville films like Le Samourai. Beautiful cinematography, strange, ellipitical screenplay, insane art direction that rivals Seijun Suzuki's flights of fancy in Tokyo Drifter. Best reason to see this though is Lee Marvin. "
97 T10 Samurai Rebellion (1967) - Sep 20, 2010
"This film is a masterpiece by a truly world class director, the sadly neglected Masaki Kobayashi. The cinematography is brilliant. The film uses very spare, rigorous and geometrical designs from traditional japan aesthetics. The story is rather like a bloody Jacobean tragedy. "