The line between reality and the writer’s vision for his book are blurred, but the effort feels dated and forced. He’s a science-fiction writer, and she’s his wife who went mute after a car accident. The creatures (1966), my 9th by Agnès Varda, an experimental fantasy pairing Catherine Deneuve with Michel Piccoli, a year before ‘Belle de Jour’. 4/10.Īlice's Wonderland, the first Walt Disney short film, released exactly 100 years ago, in 1923, a seminal year for Hollywood and for movie making. All in the name of her right to explore her desires, and told mostly from an off-putting (gay?) male gaze point of view. It opens with her masturbating in her room, and soon it moves on to her giving a blow-job to some jerk, being forced to participate in a threesome, gangbangs and in a bit of S&M. A semi-pornographic ‘erotic drama’ about a 15-year-old girl’s journey of sexual discoveries. □ Guadagnino’s second feature, Melissa P. I loved his style in ‘A bigger splash’, ‘I am love’, and ‘Call me by your name’, but this horror-comedy was hollow and unnecessary. A vulnerable love story of two young, pretty outcasts who share an affinity for flesh eating. □ Bones and all (2022), love among the cannibals. It poetically tells of 2 unassuming Indian brothers who rescue and treat injured black kite birds. This ‘how to dodge the Vietnam war draft’ satire was so amateurish, I couldn’t stand more than 15 minutes of it.Īll That Breathes, a new award-winning and Oscar-nominated Hindi language documentary. □ Greetings (1968), Brian De Palma’s 2nd film, the first American film to receive an X rating and De Nero’s first major role. But like most films from the 1980′s, it lost all its luster for me. Featuring Liam Neeson and Goodfellas "Morrie" as the heavy. Produced during David Puttnam’s successful reign of the time. Exotic-Porn, shot beautifully out in the jungle. About a Spanish slave trader who turned Jesuit missionary in 1750′s Paraguay, full of search for redemption, Penance and struggles with faith. ![]() □ The mission, one of the Vatican 15 recommended films about religion. And with Ennio Morricone’s sweeping score and Vittorio Storaro’s spectacular canvases. With lots of homoerotic subtext, De Nero frontal nudity, and other complex class-struggle subtexts. ![]() Retelling the history of Italy’s juggling the two opposing forces of fascism and communism as told through the lives of two men, one a land owner’s son and the other, still handsome peasant Gérard Depardieu. □ I finally found a good free copy of Bertolucci’s Novecento (”1900"), the full 5+ hours version, which I haven’t seen since it premiered. 3 More young Robert De Niro / 2 accompanied by Ennio Morricone:
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