I watched this a while ago now, so I'll probably be keeping this somewhat brief. This is one of Malick's films that has kind of eluded me, I think I'm nearing completion with his filmography now. The Thin Red Line was one of the most pivotal movies for me, in seeing what film was capable of beyond Pirates…Read more Days of Heaven (1978)
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Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Happy as Lazzaro is an Italian magical realist film following a poor farmer who works in an illegal sharecropping arrangement with about 50 other farmers. There are two very distinct halves of the film, the first, on the farm where Lazzaro befriends the Marchioness' son. The other, as Lazzaro finds himself in a totally new world…Read more Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
The Lighthouse (2019)
I think the best way to describe my excitement for this film would be to say that this was my personal Avengers: Endgame. I have been dying to see this since it was announced, I watched the trailer god knows how many times (although I then went on a media blackout for this film so as not…Read more The Lighthouse (2019)
High Life (2018)
I've been really bad at keeping up with posting this month, I've been trying to sort out moving to London and getting an agent so I've been a little demotivated with this. But I so appreciated the record of all the films I saw last year, I'm going to make sure I write about all…Read more High Life (2018)
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
This is an Annapurna oddball of a film i watched last night and thoroughly enjoyed, It's a real shame it didn't do better but I can see that it would have been very hard to market well. Much like The Lost City of Z, it took me about 20-30 minutes to really get into this film, mainly…Read more The Sisters Brothers (2018)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
This film has one of those trailers that I have watched over and over and over again since it was released, it's been one of my most anticipated films this year so of course I went on opening night, the second I could. It's loosely based on the life of the lead actor Jimmie Fails, he and…Read more The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
A Hidden Life (2019)
Terrence Malick was the director who got me in to film, I was 14 when I caught The Thin Red Line on tv at 2:00am by complete chance and I was completely blown away by the beautiful cinematography and score and film being used as a poetic medium which I'd never seen before. I don't think it's…Read more A Hidden Life (2019)
Ad Astra (2019)
This is what I like to see with big budget films, something different, with a distinctive voice and vision and some depth and thoughtfulness behind it, it's such a shame that it's not doing better in the box office. It's the first film I've seen by James Gray and after the first trailer selling it…Read more Ad Astra (2019)
Sunday’s Illness (2018)
Sunday's Illness is a Netflix distributed film from last year and I'd say a nice rebuttal to the frankly, wrong idea that Netflix only puts out crap, though they do put out a lot of crap, this is one of the many great Netflix Originals. The film starts at a dinner party being thrown by Anabel,…Read more Sunday’s Illness (2018)
Columbus (2017)
Columbus is a brilliant, quietly philosophical gem of a film. It follows a smart, passionate young woman called Casey (Haley Lu Richards), who's finished high school and has the world waiting for her but feels that she can't leave her small town for personal reasons. She meets a man named Jin (John Cho) who has come…Read more Columbus (2017)
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