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Forum: Movie Reviews 08-10-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Film #9: Possession (Żuławski, 1981) ...

Film #9: Possession (Żuławski, 1981)

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The body as the site where forces of chaos (random chance) clash with the ideal...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 08-02-23
Replies: 12
Understanding New Wave Films
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Understanding New Wave Films

You may wish to read up on the two volumes of Deleuze's cinema books. What we now refer to as New Wave cinema, as Mr Minio has rightfully pointed out was not a movement with a singular manifesto...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 08-01-23
Replies: 115
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

Great review. Chris Marker and Alain Resnais are two directors whom I have the most appreciation for - no surprise, both were radical visionaries who made full use of cinema by pushing it farther...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-31-23
Replies: 20
Science Fiction You Dearly Wish Someone Would Make Into a Movie
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Science Fiction You Dearly Wish Someone Would Make Into a Movie

Anything written by Greg Egan. Moreso than any other sci-fi writer that I've read, his style of writing is characterized by speed, acceleration, aggregates, infinitives, curves, points of inflexion,...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 07-30-23
Replies: 164
Oppenheimer
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Oppenheimer

Leave it to Nolan, the director who can be handed the keys to everything, to produce a 3hr film which is of such breakneck speed but says absolutely nothing. Not only is it visually unremarkable, it...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-28-23
Replies: 9
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film

Film #7: Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

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The precession of the simulacra where images dizzy the subject and drive it...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-28-23
Replies: 9
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film

Film #5: The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1969)

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The Color of Pomegranates is a radical film because it...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-28-23
Replies: 9
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film

Film #4: Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)

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Analyze the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-21-23
Replies: 9
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film

There's the age-old predicament about whether one's personal worldview (metaphysics, ontology, politics, ethics) pre-disposes one towards certain kinds of films, and whether appraisal and/or...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-21-23
Replies: 9
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Yes I consider both Prelude: Dog Star Man and...

Yes I consider both Prelude: Dog Star Man and Jeanne Dielman as highly radical and innovative films, perhaps near the pinnacle of what cinema has ever attained. Hypothetically speaking, I would've...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-18-23
Replies: 9
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film

Film #3: The Double Life of Véronique (Kieślowski, 1991)

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It is conceivable that we share the same thoughts and feelings as someone else, that...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-18-23
Replies: 9
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film

Film #2: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)

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The singular event* that erupts at the end has...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-18-23
Replies: 9
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Thinking About Film

Sharing my reviews of films that I find noteworthy. Most of the films reviewed here are personal favourites. The views expressed here are mine, though they are inspired and informed by readings I...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-13-23
Replies: 18
Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?

I just realized I haven't properly replied to the question. Adding on to what has already been mentioned... I think Ordet is the definitive film about transcendence.

Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-13-23
Replies: 18
Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?

Just to be a little pedantic, but one of the most misused terms in cinema and by extension all of the arts is the term "transcendence". To transcend is to basically mean "to go out of"; to move...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-13-23
Replies: 18
Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?

There are many facets of Buddhist philosophy that I find elegant and profound like the concepts of "sunyata" and "dependent arising", and others such as the asceticism and negation of desire which...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-07-23
Replies: 22
I've been a cinephile for 10 years
Posted By Tyler1
Re: I've been a cinephile for 10 years

Have you seen the new 4k restoration of Werckmeister Harmonies? Here is my review: https://letterboxd.com/wu_yong/film/werckmeister-harmonies/

These days I want to revisit the films that resonate...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-07-23
Replies: 48
What are some of your favorite movies from the 2020s so far?
Posted By Tyler1
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My Favorite Music Albums
Posted By Tyler1
Voices from the Lake - s/t (2012)* ...

Voices from the Lake - s/t (2012)*
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10th anniversary remastered:...
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My Favorite Music Albums
Posted By Tyler1
Re: My Favorite Music Albums

Ali Hassan Kuban - Walk Like A Nubian (1991)...
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My Favorite Music Albums
Posted By Tyler1
Re: My Favorite Music Albums

Idoli - Odbrana i poslednji dani (1982)
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Favorite track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOg-bn2sWU
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My Favorite Music Albums
Posted By Tyler1
Re: My Favorite Music Albums

Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages (1993)
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Favorite track:...
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My Favorite Music Albums
Posted By Tyler1
El Polen - Fuera de la Ciudad (1973) ...

El Polen - Fuera de la Ciudad (1973)
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Favorite track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvLeNjLblMk
Replies: 6
My Favorite Music Albums
Posted By Tyler1
My Favorite Music Albums

Unlike movie lists I have done in the past, this is neither definitive nor ranked. I shall simply post the albums which have resonated and left a lasting impression on me. Also, as music is very much...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-19-23
Replies: 145
Mr Minio's Top 300 (2021 ed.)
Posted By Tyler1
Certainly the most tragic and its my 2nd...

Certainly the most tragic and its my 2nd favorite. Late Spring is my no.1.

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