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PerryStroika
Cinema Addict - 1368 Films Ranked
Member Since: Sep 20, 2010
Location: USA
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90 Cure (1997) - Aug 28, 2011
Mini-Review: 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 Tôkyô sonata (2008) - Sep 20, 2010
Mini-Review: 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.
65 X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) - Oct 03, 2010
Mini-Review: Scientist attempts to see to the ends of the universe and succeeds. Then, however, he has to live with the consequences. Corman called it "B movie Greek Tragedy". I think that works. Crazily compelling.
78 Good Bye Lenin! (2003) - Oct 04, 2010
Mini-Review: It is difficult to recall just how world shattering an event the fall of the Eastern Bloc was. The world changed, seemingly overnight, and this film beautifully summons up a wistful sense of dislocation as the somewhat innocent East Germans enter a new world of fast food joints, designer jeans and lava lamps.
75 Gremlins (1984) - Sep 20, 2010
Mini-Review: The concept: a corny, Frank Capraesque, home-for-the-holidays movie set in small town America gets hijacked by little green monsters. Some of the wildest, funniest and cruelest on screen mayhem this side of Tex Avery country ensues. Pure anarchy.
68 Melancholia (2011) - Apr 22, 2012
Mini-Review: An orgy of Teutonic misery, part of a genre I like to call "good looking people feeling baaad", with atmospheric lighting, beautiful imagery of the sky and clouds and planets, and music by Wagner.
73 Fury (1936) - Jan 23, 2011
Mini-Review: Intense drama about the dehumanizing effects of revenge. The denizens of a small town try to take revenge on a man falsely accused of murder. They lynch him. The man, thought dead, miraculously survives and becomes an inhuman monster seeking nothing but revenge on them. Most brilliant thing, the way the movie invites you to root for the comeuppance of the town's people, for the man to "get" them, but then proceeds to make those emotions problematic. Sylvia Sidney is sublime.
91 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) - Sep 20, 2010
Mini-Review: 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.
70 Point Blank (1967) - Sep 22, 2010
Mini-Review: 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.
76 Avatar (2009) - Sep 20, 2010
Mini-Review: 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.
 
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