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When I play Sweet is the Melody for the fifteenth time
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
When I play Sweet is the Melody for the fifteenth time
The god has moved onward
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The god has moved onward
good decades so far
June 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
good decades so far
The Christopher ep is not only very funny, or just another hall-of-fame demonstration of the lazy, circular behavior of the whole cast—season 4 is the first produced after 9/11 and the episode is essential to triangulating how hopelessly backwards and entitled our leads are, mirroring the nation
October 9, 2023 at 5:01 PM
The Christopher ep is not only very funny, or just another hall-of-fame demonstration of the lazy, circular behavior of the whole cast—season 4 is the first produced after 9/11 and the episode is essential to triangulating how hopelessly backwards and entitled our leads are, mirroring the nation
@letterboxd.social can you guys reach out to my friend and see if they’re ok
October 7, 2023 at 10:38 PM
@letterboxd.social can you guys reach out to my friend and see if they’re ok
Following his wife Shepitko’s dreamy exploration of partisan struggle, Elim Klimov took an unflinching approach to the subject with 1985’s COME AND SEE, a work of multiplied notoriety with every passing year. Nearly 40 years after its release it stuns for its unabiding celebration of mass resistance
October 7, 2023 at 9:31 PM
Following his wife Shepitko’s dreamy exploration of partisan struggle, Elim Klimov took an unflinching approach to the subject with 1985’s COME AND SEE, a work of multiplied notoriety with every passing year. Nearly 40 years after its release it stuns for its unabiding celebration of mass resistance
One of the more immortal 20th century works, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS stands apart as a documentary-thriller hybrid rallying national memory and revolutionary pride to bring to life the fever of communal participation in mass liberation
October 7, 2023 at 9:24 PM
One of the more immortal 20th century works, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS stands apart as a documentary-thriller hybrid rallying national memory and revolutionary pride to bring to life the fever of communal participation in mass liberation
Produced as well under uncertain wartime conditions, 1943’s LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP is a sad mirror of a nation coming to grips with the necessity of struggle and hardship, the letting go of static notions of dignity and the embrace of survival at any cost
October 7, 2023 at 9:21 PM
Produced as well under uncertain wartime conditions, 1943’s LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP is a sad mirror of a nation coming to grips with the necessity of struggle and hardship, the letting go of static notions of dignity and the embrace of survival at any cost
Hungary’s SON OF SAUL, a striking and unforgettable drama of the valleys of human cruelty, made an instant critical splash with its mournful 16mm closeups of a man going mad enslaved in Aushcwitz, where the sight of a young boy’s corpse inspires him to go on an impossible journey of selflessness
October 7, 2023 at 9:18 PM
Hungary’s SON OF SAUL, a striking and unforgettable drama of the valleys of human cruelty, made an instant critical splash with its mournful 16mm closeups of a man going mad enslaved in Aushcwitz, where the sight of a young boy’s corpse inspires him to go on an impossible journey of selflessness
Daring to embrace the surreal, hallucinatory quality of living inches away from death for years at a time, master director Larisa Shepitko brought new-wave construction to 1977’s THE ASCENT and its story of two soviet partisans holding fast to their humanity in Nazi captivity
October 7, 2023 at 9:12 PM
Daring to embrace the surreal, hallucinatory quality of living inches away from death for years at a time, master director Larisa Shepitko brought new-wave construction to 1977’s THE ASCENT and its story of two soviet partisans holding fast to their humanity in Nazi captivity
Denounced and suppressed on release, and only recently hailed for its unbelievable power, Melville’s ARMY OF SHADOWS dares to live in the minutiae of resistance, the days and nights passed on dingy cots, the unclotted gushes of violence, the sad resignation when failure is your closet companion
October 7, 2023 at 9:06 PM
Denounced and suppressed on release, and only recently hailed for its unbelievable power, Melville’s ARMY OF SHADOWS dares to live in the minutiae of resistance, the days and nights passed on dingy cots, the unclotted gushes of violence, the sad resignation when failure is your closet companion
Before dramatizing Oppenheimer’s doomed conflict between progress and politics, Cillian Murphy brought to life the inevitably dire arc of the committed revolutionary in Ken Loach’s agonizing portrait of the Irish Civil War, THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY. Modern drama’s peak of socialist reckoning.
October 7, 2023 at 9:00 PM
Before dramatizing Oppenheimer’s doomed conflict between progress and politics, Cillian Murphy brought to life the inevitably dire arc of the committed revolutionary in Ken Loach’s agonizing portrait of the Irish Civil War, THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY. Modern drama’s peak of socialist reckoning.
Combining his signature exaggerated storytelling with the most extreme modern fascist expression—a subject painfully close to his experience—Verhoeven’s BLACK BOOK digs into the thin line between collaborator and saboteur, the ongoing cost of performing subservience to monstrosity
October 7, 2023 at 8:49 PM
Combining his signature exaggerated storytelling with the most extreme modern fascist expression—a subject painfully close to his experience—Verhoeven’s BLACK BOOK digs into the thin line between collaborator and saboteur, the ongoing cost of performing subservience to monstrosity
a British production from 1942, WENT THE DAY WELL? has the gall to depict the sunny terror of Nazi domination in the English countryside, with only determined old ladies and schoolchildren in place to defend the homeland. A bonkers premise leaving no gleefully dark implication unexplored
October 7, 2023 at 8:44 PM
a British production from 1942, WENT THE DAY WELL? has the gall to depict the sunny terror of Nazi domination in the English countryside, with only determined old ladies and schoolchildren in place to defend the homeland. A bonkers premise leaving no gleefully dark implication unexplored
‘66, when not only would a massive epic of non-actors directed by an avowed marxist explore the necessity of political retribution to universal raves, it would have a damned Morricone score to boot
October 7, 2023 at 6:10 PM
‘66, when not only would a massive epic of non-actors directed by an avowed marxist explore the necessity of political retribution to universal raves, it would have a damned Morricone score to boot