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I am crazy about this movie, watched it many times. One thing you missed, at the end, when those mimes play tennis, he actually starts to hear the sound of a tennis ball. He creates artificial world, artificial emotions, very strong emotions, he is very good at it (he can translate a passion of a sex game into his art), at creating those canned emotions, and people start to live in the world he created. He is very well paid for this, but the ones who are providing money for creating this illusion, beneath this illusion are killing people. The real life is rough, the illusion is better, at the end, he, himself, crosses the line, into the illusion, starts to play this imagined game, the ones who are controlling the world are too strong. This is excellent movie, in 1966 the world we know today was created, and Antonioni perfectly painted the whole picture, which is relevant even today, timeless. The art was imposed on us by patrons, to occupy us, to deceive us, while they are doing their dirty work beneath it.

When this movie came out, it was ground-breaking and shocking to audiences. NO sci-fi/action movie had ever been so relentlessly exciting like the last hour of Aliens. If you see it for the first time now, you're seeing it in context to many of the films that were influenced by it, but in the mid 80s, this was absolutely original.

I grew up in rural Texas at the time this movie was set and let me tell you, it was spot on. Duval's accent is pure central Texas (by way of Tennessee). Yes, I can often designate a regional Texas accent. These people from this area are so stoic that too many people they came off as cold, but they are far from cold to me.

As a person very much grounded in the sciences, medical science in particular, I viewed this movie as a warning. The lack of insight into one’s own psyche, combined with naivety, passiveness, and suggestibility such as the main character, can be more detrimental to one’s health than micro levels of metal in one’s body and “quaternary ammonium compounds” and whatever other obvious pseudoscience the cultish “new wave” health practitioners were pushing. In the end, she was likely more ill from lack of vital nutrients and sunshine, (the condition of her skin, at least, indicates a problem there) and the constant stress of an unknowable enemy, than from any real environmental poison or pathogen. (I have seen people really sick from their environments, and it’s not housewives from the suburbs, it’s very low income children living in roach infested tenements in high pollution areas, with immune systems compromised before birth and onward, from gestational environment, and family and community stressors, the likes of which we can barely imagine.) Her inability to live life dooms her to an inability to live life. In the end, just as we have no insight into who she is, she has still not plumbed the depths of her psyche to find her own true self. Also, yes, bravo to Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore, obviously.

A wonderful film. It's about loneliness, alienation, and broken hearts, and how three strangers are drawn to each other. A film about kindness and the joy of true friendship. Your analysis of its metaphors is spot on. A joy❤ Thanks for posting; keep up the good work. PS How about McCarthy's next masterpiece, The Visitor?

Thanks for the review, I love Dark City! I really like the Matrix, but I feel its success had the unfortunate effect of sending some great films with similar themes to the bottom of the bargain bin. I’d love to hear your thoughts on eXistenZ and The Thirteenth Floor which came out with months of The Matrix.

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Many more men than Cheney were killed because of her vengeance. She cared nothing for them, and was equally unemotional about the death of her own father, but when the horse was killed for mercy, she was devastated. I don’t know exactly what that means, but it does seem significant.

5 - masterpiece 4.5 - A+, A near perfect personal fav 4 - A, A- 3.5 - B+ really good 3 - B, B- solid 2.5 - C+ meh, i finished it somehow, entertained 2 - C-

Well if you’re going to add Sci-Fi or Space Fantasy movies ( Two Star Wars titles!) then I will include one of my CyberPunk Fantasy favorites…. 1982’s TRON! 🤩 Yeah Conan the Barbarian has “Action” but it seems bizarre to put such a VIOLENT Dark Fantasy film in that category. 🙄 The Thing as a choice is bizarre to me as opposed to the Terminator but the Terminator could also be described as Sci-Fi Terror ( The last 15 to 20 minutes is a Slasher film sequence!) If we’re going to do Fantasy I would add ‘81’s DRAGONSLAYER and another Sci-Fi Adventure film called ENEMY MINE with a young Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Junior! 😎 Praise your inclusion of Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior but I put it at 3! 😎 Die Hard at 1 and ‘89 BATMAN at 3! 😉

I think I may have seen this in its original theatrical release. Have to watch it again now.

Dark City is awesome as long as you go with the Director's cut and it's better than The Matrix.

Thanks for talking about this one. Very special gem

Cool...cool movie got the special edition years ago. I put the theme from the final battle on my movie soundtrack playlist on Amazon music.

great review, i was thinking how ebert loved this movie too, which you mention ... only saw once, enjoyable, somehow was a bit too visually dark for me, but thanks for reminding me of the ending, which i had no recall of ... kind of reminiscent of a truman show ending, a great wide ocean of possibility ahead. also the theme of alien control reminiscent of oblivion (w/ tom cruise)

It's odd but I'm not much a noir fan until you put a touch of futuristic scfi with it then becomes a favorite genre

Slim Pickens character Major Kong comes across as a hayseed, but he is a very good pilot and knows his way around a B52.

I had been waiting for this one, as I never liked Dark City. I appreciate what it was going for, but found a lot of the narrative, action, and acting unintentionally goofy (or maybe it was intentional?). The aliens motivations were a whole lot more interesting than in the matrix, and make a whole lot more scientific and inquisitive sense, but I really can't get through the movie without being distracted by it's goofiness - to the point it takes any entertainment factor away for me. Hard for me not to imagine how great this movie would be with the cast and production team from the matrix, or how great the matrix could have been with dark city's vision. I still love the matrix though, and dislike dark city. That might say a lot more about me as viewer than anything about the two movies. I gave the original RoboCop 5/5 on letterboxd, and more recently Slotherhouse a 4/5, so there is some level or type of goofiness I enjoy.

When someone says they like The Matrix, I have to ask them: "Have you seen Dark City?!" If you haven't, don't watch this video yet and go watch the Director's Cut! It's so satisfying going in not knowing the twists! ♥️

I'm late to this review and it is a great one. But the story in the film develops around the war between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and how neighboring countries deal with it(in this story ,how Macedonia deals with the neighbors war).But predicts the conflict between Macedonians and Albanians that will follow years later, in 2001. The pictures of war victims shown in the film are from Bosnia and Herzegovina, photographed by Aleksandar Kirkov as a British war reporter, but the impatience between Albanians and Macedonians during that period, specifically in 1994, is real and results in the civil war that follows in 2001. I hope I gave a good clarification for everyone who wants to watch the movie Before the Rain

So good

Apart from the visuals and some referring to it as reference quality, you were generous with your rating. It's an Inception wannabe fail. It's like either the director or a group together decided, let's make it so complex and nonsensical that no one gets it... snicker, snicker, muuuahaaaahaaaahaaaaa, and they succeded! 😆

The only thing you can trust is humans to be humans... and our reality is individual...we are not machines and we all don't think alike.... Kurosawa is showing the nature of human beings..some might say a cynical take... even the woodcutter walking off with the baby at the end...who knows what his true motives are

Movie : Man in a white suit ( UK 1951 ) Same Director, this movie. Peace to all.

I went down a rabbit hole last summer in search of great films. I wanted to jumpstart my love of black and white films. Bergman was included on several lists I watched in order to catch up on the latest and greatest. Summer with Monika caught my eye and I finally watched it recently. However, this film is what sold me as a Bergman fan. I have a fascination with psychosis due to personal and educational experience. This film utterly captures schizophrenia in a raw, uninhibited light. I lived with someone who found themselves developing schizo effective disorder. I could relate to the husband in such a way, I was shaken. The father's attitude is what I had to adopt. When Karin said she did not want treatment and chose who she would become....it was like a death. I could go on, but I just rather sit back for a little while longer to ponder.

I watched this movie about 2 years ago, and it was weird, but somehow, even if I didn't understand anything, to this day, it is my favorite movie. A couple of days ago, I decided to open a blog, and the very first thing I wanted to write about was this movie, and I'm gonna watch it again while taking notes. I hope it will be alright

I Would Rather Watch "9th Gate"

Always loved this film! Still do. Creative artist and serious high art classical musician me.

Gutted they apparently never saw Tarkovsky’s filmography. Maybe he was 26-55 somewhere but sheesh

Great movie

A shout out to the beauty of Alberta!

This movie is great for so many reasons. But for me it’s the racial demographic. It’s completely accurate. Movies now show so many minorities as if there’s just as many. No hate but this is what real America looks like.

I dont know, but I would bet that this film was inspiration for Blake Edwards The Party with Peter Sellers.

thanks for introducing me to my now favourite film director! was actually disappointed by winter sleep but that's maybe because i'm just too young to understand the subtleties in it. reading the reviews made me think there was something i didnt see that they did, but upon rewatch i still cant fully realise it. once upon a time in anatolia is his masterpiece though. thank you again

Enjoy Victor Borge doing the opera Mozart attributed to Salieri: ruclips.net/video/YPDnGi8ANnM/видео.htmlsi=VUsX1ifcf4Kp9hY1

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2. High Noon 3. Once upon a time in the West 4. The Great Silence 5. There will be blood 6. For a few dollars more 7. Unforgiven 8. The Searchers 9. The Hateful 8 10. The Magnificent Seven HM: Wild Bunch, Fistful of Dollars and Bone Tomahawk

Curious, do you always finish every movie? If you DNF a movie, does it automatically get a 0.5 star?

The biggest failing of the movie is that it still doesn't challenge racist beliefs at all. Sure, the white protagonist gets compared to Native Americans, and Scar is given a motivation for scalping white people that mirrors John Wayne's character motives, but all of this is to say white people can be "just as bad as Natives"- not anything inherently pleasant about Native Americans as people. This even goes with your domestic vs wild observation, wherein the outside world (including where Native Americans live) is inherently more savage, and one needs domesticity to be "tamed". So, again, it's comparing John Wayne to Native Americans by suggesting in the closing frame his issues stem from being "wild" like them. Furthermore, it is always suggested that being white is better than being Native American. Debbie, for example, gets saved from the Cherokees, despite the setup that John Wayne and Scar are similar people. I'm not saying it's better for her to have lived with her kidnappers, but it does pose a thematic question; if you truly want your villain and hero to mirror each other, what is the defining trait that makes your hero better? It's a cop-out to say "because of the unique instances in the movie" when it's battling with much more general ideas, so, to me, it favors the idea the white family is more domestic and that is the trait to set the two apart, rather than any idea of birthright. (But I should note that I'm less confident on this idea since it's been a while since I've seen the movie) Regardless, really wonderful analysis!

1. When it comes to pure action, nothing beats Commando. On top of that all these great oneliners ("let of some steam Bennett", "What did you do with Sully?" "I let him go", "A guy i've known for years wants me dead." "That's understandable, I only know you for five minutes and I want you dead too"). It's lean, it's mean, it's fun and it's short. Everything what an action movie should be. But of course technically it's a mess. 2. Terminator is high on my list, for a few reasons. It is a low budget movie that looks like a blockbuster, it moves forward with immense speed (at one time Kyle Reece has to explain to plot during a chase scene), it has some of the most memorable scenes ever in an action movie (the shoot-out at the Tech Noir, the creepy scenes were Arnie repairs himself...) and last but not least the ending where Cameron goes from climax to climax (poor Arnie is run over by a truck, burned up, blow to pieces and than finally finished off by being crushed). Terminator set a new standard here which few other action movies (or directors rather) were able to emulate (Aliens, Terminator 2...). 3. For me the best action movie (by a mile) remains Die Hard. Great setup, best villain ever (thank you Alan Rickman), perfect casting, great action, memorable oneliners ("we need some more FBI guys I guess"). And of course it's a Christmas movie.

The British Legal System is alive today: No guns allowed, and NO "stand your ground" defense EXISTS in Commonwealth countries. That law ALSO doesn't like jury trials: you can't control the outcome. Which is WHY the Americans went the opposite direction: Stand Your Ground, and pack.

One of the best ending lines ever. So deliciously dark and witty.

there aren't many movies i rewatch on purpose, but this is one and "Immortal Beloved" is another. They have obvious parallels, but i couldn't say which is better.

Just watched this - I think there are a number of complex themes, but what stood out for me are individualism vs collectivism, and how both self interest and collective interest can lead to corruption and moral grayness at all levels. Individual and collective villains and heroes feature strongly throughout the film. At the beginning of the film, in the high echelons of society, Gondo wishes to act in his individual interests to dominate the company. He is asked to join a collective wishing to do the same, but refuses to do so. At this point he is an individual acting selfishly, and they are a collective doing the same. Gondo, however, wishes to profit individually whilst also serving the collective interests of society, whereas they wish to exploit society as a collective of innocent victims. When the boy, an individual innocent victim, is kidnapped, his immediate reaction is to refuse to pay - he values his individual needs over the needs of the boy and his father. He only relents when it is pointed out to him (by a man who has betrayed him) that society as a whole will reject him if he does so. He values his standing in the community and realises that if the boy dies, his reputation will be ruined forever so he has no choice. The film then climbs down to the middle class within the society - mainly the police but also the general public. They work as collective heroes in order to save the boy, and it is the action of the individuals that almost disrupt this process. Here we see the 'best' of society, but it then becomes clear that the kidnapper, an individual villain, too is from the middle class. He exploits the lower class (the drug addicts) in an attempt to profit from the upper class, finding excuses to justify both of these. In the final part of the film, we are taken to the lower levels of society, where people are shown as very self-indulgent to the point of destruction. Here there are collective drug gangs, but also innocent individual victims of exploitation. This is also where the director's concerns about the influence of western culture are most prominent. In the final confrontation, at the lowest level of all (the prison), we see that Gondo, despite being seen as an individual hero, has not achieved his lifetime's ambition and is now part of the middle class. The kidnapper, an individual villain, has fallen from the middle class to that of a common criminal. The police, the collective heroes, and the men from the beginning of the movie, the collective villains, have both been successful and achieved their goals. Serving the greater good or the greater evil are both strong themes in Kurosawa's work. This is what I took from watching the movie a single time, but I suspect there is a lot more here to explore and it's one I will definitely revisit.

I didn't know about this movie until my son put it on last night for movie night We have the same sense of humor and we both really enjoyed it and laughed ourselves silly I want a physical release of this movie

The Corn bros. Version is best because the actors are top notch, the directors are top notch, etc.

I just now watched this movie, and had finished the book about five minutes before starting it. I loved it! At the same time, I wish they had made it an hour longer, it was more like a summery of the book, still hitting all important parts (except how they skipped all the El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle stories). Still an incredible movie!

Its really about the San Fernando Valley which is the north part of Los Angeles. It is by nature a desert which became a suburb.

Raging Bull

The birds also has a strong scary dominant mother

Apparently my dad took my mom to see PSYCHO on their first date... and she thought afterwards that "she will never go out with this guy again" ... more than a decade later, when I was twelve, I got so ANXIOUS to see it and BEGGED my mom to be allowed to see it, because I had just bought Truffaut's interview book with Hitchcock and admired all those shower screenshots in it. The expression on her face was priceless, like I was a hopeless case... To this day, I think this film is a symphony in cinematic storytelling.