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Wanda, dir. Barbara Loden, 1970

Beau Travail is such a beautiful film. So ethereal and dream-like. Touches on themes such as masculinity, the human condition, desire and repression. Denis Lavant stars as Galoup, reminiscing about his days in the French Foreign Legion, his admiration for his commanding officer, and an ensuing, bitter rivalry with a recently arrived private. His performance evokes this uncanny feeling to it that only memories are able to achieve. Undoubtedly my favorite film from Claire Denis. That ending will stay with you for a long time. A true masterpiece and a trascendent achievement of cinema.

Video Diary of a Lost Girl (2012)

Dir. Lindsay Denniberg

daisies (1966) dir. věra chytilová

Please Baby Please, 2022, dir. Amanda Kramer

eyes wide shut.

(Archive) Animated movie of the day: Tenshi no Tamago (1985)

Originally posted: January 3rd, 2022 Mamoru Oshii. If the name is unfamiliar to you, he's one of the most successful auteurs in the world of anime. I use this label over director because, while there's clear authorial intent with many of them, Oshii has been known for flat out defying giants and using their namesakes to make his unique vision come through regardless of the consequences(Urusei Yatsura and Ghost in the Shell come to mind). So when he was given full creative freedom as an established director…he went into the depressing but beautiful realm of visual poetry and religious symbolism.

Inspired by his own crisis of faith, this is probably the most abstract and surreal movie I've reviewed so far. It's slow paced, visually dense, nearly devoid of dialogue in it's entirety and it presents a fairly simple narrative in terms of what literally happens but near incomprehensible when it comes to analysing it's themes. The utter most basic gist is about a little girl that holds on to a large egg. She meets a man that carries a cross shaped rifle and they travel together in what seems to be an abandoned, dying world.

While it's clear Christian imagery is prominent throughout it all(including an ominous divergence of the story of Noah), the actual meaning behind it all is not clear cut and left open to interpretation, and the events throughout are themselves often presented in an ethereal fashion. The artistry of the images on display is simply stunning, with the art direction of Yoshitaka Amano of Final Fantasy fame. The end result, however, is less whimsical and more of a melancholic dreamscape made of abandoned buildings and angel fossils; where the shadows are overpowering and you're only accompanied by the sound of running water.

Closer to what you would see from Andrei Tarkovsky than a traditional anime, this is the last film you'd watch with a bucket of popcorn. Even so, it's still an experience I'd recommend anyone to have at least once.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

Episodes 25 & 26

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The antagonistic presence of men in Cléo de 5 a 7, dir. Agnès Varda, 1962

Possession (1981) -- Andrzej Żuławski

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SIGNAL 

Mysterious, beautiful, and surreal. These descriptions are what come to mind while watching Julian C. Wilkins’ film, SIGNAL. A visual poetic dream or nightmare about a man experiencing and seeing something, he shouldn’t be. The end result is a dark sci-fi story that straddles the boundaries of experimental and horror.