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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The ultimate trip.
Filmmaker(s): Stanley Kubrick
Science Fiction
Mystery
Adventure

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

11 Dec

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Dueling Gods the disaster of ‘Sparticus.' Kubrick has centred each project on the mysteries of the narrative. Each film explores some theory or notion about the paths of storytelling and the fragility of those paths. Some get very abstract, like’Barry Lyndon,' where identities are adopted...


Published December 11, 2024
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Death by Hanging (1968)
Filmmaker(s): Nagisa Ōshima
Comedy
Drama

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

10 Dec

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Film as Execution of the benefits of writing film comments is that readers will sometimes send me recommendations. If that were the only benefit, and if this were the only recommendation I would get, it would be worth it. By reading the comments, you may think...


Published December 10, 2024
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Barbarella (1968)
See Barbarella do her thing!
Filmmaker(s): Roger Vadim
Science Fiction
Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

16 May

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Which Skin? are only a few films that can be called roots. 1968 generated two of them, “2001” and this. “2001” is about the ambiguities of who is narrating. This is about the ambiguities of where the skin is. From the very beginning, the prurient...


Published May 16, 2023
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The Man Without a Map (1968)
Filmmaker(s): Hiroshi Teshigahara
Mystery

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.

30 Sep

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Life as Navigation has an anchor when they enter a film. With a little exposure to world cinema, that anchor for each film is rooted in the tradition you select from that culture. This is a personal choice, made long before you encounter the film....


Published September 30, 2022
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Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968)
What happens to innocence in the inferno of first love?
Filmmaker(s): Susumu Hani
Drama
Romance

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

03 Jul

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Fluid Abstraction may find this hard to see. It is a Japanese “new wave”, film. It has a story of course, but such things are largely irrelevant. I’ll give it because you may not see it. (In my comments, I assume most folks have seen...


Published July 3, 2022
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