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The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2004)
Filmmaker(s): Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Man's Machine, God's Tune is a matter of abstraction. Always has been, in everything I suppose. But especially in film. The business is one of sharpening some edges and making others recede so as to cut us in some way. It is a dangerous business...


Published December 2, 2024
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Hidden (2005)
Filmmaker(s): Michael Haneke

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

Our Camera the very first, we know that a hidden story within this film will merge with the film. After 4 minutes of looking at the movie, we realise we are looking at a movie within the movie, a tape. As the film proceeds, it...


Published December 2, 2024
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Inland Empire (2006)
A woman in trouble.
Filmmaker(s): David Lynch

An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

Kieslowski Films Joyce saw this during a period of extreme emotional stress, probably the best possible mode. It was also surrounded by my listening to "Big Fish," Lynch's book, read by himself. The contrast is astonishing: Lynch's banal aphorisms in the book with rich, multilayered...


Published December 2, 2024
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I’m Not There (2007)
All i can do is be me, whoever that is.
Filmmaker(s): Todd Haynes

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

Shades was the semantically richest and emotionally deepest film experience I have had in years. And since I am different now that I was five years ago, it could qualify as near my favourite. It will likely not be so for you, at least to...


Published December 1, 2024
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Spaceman (2024)
I just want to go home.
Filmmaker(s): Johan Renck

Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.

Eclipsed ‘2001’ was so good in different ways that it has become appreciated for incidental qualities instead of the filmmaker’s intent. What he explored in basically all his films after this period was the relationship among ‘truth’, and how it is carried by the surrounding...


Published December 1, 2024
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Gladiator II (2024)
Prepare to be entertained.
Filmmaker(s): Ridley Scott

Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.

<strong>Reverse Ventriloquism am roughly the same age as Scott and Coppola and still producing. I’m going to visit their creations out of loyal admiration as much as anything. But also inspiration, because I am pulled between two extremes they represent. Coppola is an intellectual intuitive...


Published December 1, 2024
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Gladiator (2000)
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
Filmmaker(s): Ridley Scott

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

The Illusionist and the Ventriloquist things about this film intrigue me: the novel integrated talents of Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe. We are creatures who depend on idea fragments in everything we do. Virtually everything is a rehash, sometimes creative but mostly not. When someone or...


Published November 30, 2024
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Across the Universe (2007)
All you need is love.
Filmmaker(s): Julie Taymor

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

Entering the Mask say up front that this film will almost certainly go on my list of films to see before you die, only one of two that I allow from each year. Let's get the problems out of the way first. The overall container of this...


Published November 30, 2024
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Tropic Thunder (2008)
Get Some.
Filmmaker(s): Ben Stiller

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

Three, Five, Eight seen to be only eight ways for humans to reference themselves. Only 5 are considered possible though I have encountered six I believe. Rarely, three are present here. Robert Downey Jr is an actor on-screen. We never lose sight that it is he....


Published November 30, 2024
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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Filmmaker(s): Charlie Kaufman

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Death of a Playwright am thrilled by this film: all the wonderful narrative devices that I find delicious and engaging, and this time turned to have an effect on the viewer that is not to be lost lightly. He's wonderful. But I'm amazed at the writers...


Published November 30, 2024
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