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by djross
Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:45 am
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Replies: 0
Views: 1286

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Across a three-day period, a widow takes care of her son and attends to all kinds of “female duties”, but, very gradually, and despite the static camera, things start to fall apart. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I have the impression that responses to this film largely see it as being about the tedium and ...
by djross
Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 5000th?
Replies: 13
Views: 4677

Re: 5000th?

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by djross
Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:48 pm
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: The Wonder (2022)
Replies: 0
Views: 808

The Wonder (2022)

A little reminiscent of Manoel de Oliveira’s Benilde or the Virgin Mother (1975), including the deliberate artificiality, but here, the psychotherapeutic explanations, the fashionable revelations of abuse, the struggle of a no-nonsense female against the nonsense of powerful old males, and even some...
by djross
Wed Nov 02, 2022 8:25 pm
Forum: Report a Bug
Topic: New Releases page heading
Replies: 1
Views: 621

New Releases page heading

Currently, it reads "Films Currenty in Theaters".
by djross
Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:45 am
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Earth (1930)
Replies: 0
Views: 978

Earth (1930)

More than ninety years later, what still seems surprising is the way this combines the wish to create an ode to industrialisation with the wish to expressively convey the rhythms and cycles of nature, a celebration of the destruction of borders with a love of locality, a dream of ascending to the hi...
by djross
Wed Sep 28, 2022 7:23 pm
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Blonde (2022)
Replies: 0
Views: 954

Blonde (2022)

Dominik throws everything he can think of at the screen, but in a way that almost seems desperate to impress, as if he had inklings that he had gotten himself caught up in a wrongheaded idea but had no choice but to plow on regardless. Characterisation is weak, and far too much of the dialogue comes...
by djross
Wed Aug 31, 2022 5:37 am
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: The Golden Coach (1953)
Replies: 0
Views: 695

The Golden Coach (1953)

In the heart of a vivacious actress, love struggles to awake. She seems to be looking for the Goldilocks level of violently jealous man – not too much, not too little – only to eventually rediscover, gloriously and yet with a little melancholy, if not tragedy, that her true path consists in that inf...
by djross
Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 5000th?
Replies: 13
Views: 4677

5000th?

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