Countless other characters pass out and in of this rare charmer without much fanfare, nonetheless thanks for the film’s sly wit and fully lived-in performances they all leave an improbably lasting impression.
Wisely realizing that, despite the hundreds of years between them, Jane Austen similarly held great regard for “women’s lives” and managed to craft stories about them that were foolish, frothy, funny, and very relatable.
Even more acutely than both of the films Kieślowski would make next, “Blue” illustrates why none of us is ever truly alone (for better worse), and then mines a powerful solace from the cosmic secret of how we might all mesh together.
Queen Latifah plays legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in this Dee Rees-directed film about how she went from a battling young singer on the Empress of Blues. Latifah delivers a great performance, as well as the film is full of amazing music. When it aired, it was the most watched HBO film of all time.
To such uncultured fools/people who aren’t complete nerds, Anno’s psychedelic film might appear like the incomprehensible story of a traumatized (but extremely horny) teenage boy who’s pressured to take a seat from the cockpit of a major purple robot and judge irrespective of whether all humanity should be melded into a single consciousness, or In case the liquified crimson goo that’s left of their bodies should be allowed to reconstitute itself at some point while in the future.
In the many years due to the fact, his films have never shied away from hard subject matters, as they deal with everything from childhood abandonment in “Abouna” and genital mutilation in “Lingui, The Sacred Bonds,” to your cruel bureaucracy facing asylum seekers in “A Year In France.” While the dejected character he portrays in “Bye Bye Africa” ultimately leaves his camera behind, it really is to cinema’s great fortune that the real Haroun did not do the same. —LL
It’s no incident that “Porco Rosso” is set at the peak from the interwar time period, the film’s hyper-fluid animation and general air of frivolity shadowed because of the looming specter of fascism plus a deep feeling of future nostalgia for all that would be forfeited to it. But there’s also such a rich vein of enjoyment to it — this is often a movie that feels as breezy and ecstatic as flying a Ghibli plane through a clear summer afternoon (or at least as ecstatic as it makes that seem).
Sure, there’s a world of darkness waiting for them when they get there, but that’s just how it pormhub goes. There are shadows in life
A non-linear eyesight of 1950s Liverpool that unfolds with the slippery warmth of the Technicolor deathdream, “The Long Day Closes” finds the director sifting through his childhood memories and recreating the happy formative years after his father’s death in order to sanctify the love that’s been waiting there for him all along, just behind the layer of glass that has always kept Davies (and his less explicitly autobiographical characters) from being ready to reach out and touch it.
No matter how bleak things get, Ghost Dog’s rigid system of perception allows him to maintain his dignity while in the face of deadly circumstance. More than that, it serves to be a metaphor to the world of unbiased cinema itself (a domain in which Jarmusch had sexxxxx already become trendyporn an elder statesman), in addition to a reaffirmation of its faith while in the idiosyncratic and uncompromising artists who lend it their lives. —LL
Even better. A testament on the power of huge ideas and bigger execution, only “The Matrix” could make us even dare to dream that we know kung fu, and would want to use it to perform nothing less than save the entire world with it.
You might love it with the whip-good screenplay, which won Callie Khouri an Academy Award. Or maybe for your chemistry between its two leads, because Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis couldn’t have been better cast as Louise, a jaded waitress and her friend Thelma, a naive housewife, whose worlds are turned upside down during a weekend girls’ trip when Louise fatally shoots a man trying to rape Thelma outside a dance hall.
Possibly it’s fitting that a road movie — the ultimate road movie — exists in so many different iterations, each longer than the next, spliced together from other iterations that together create a sense of a grand cohesive whole. There is beauty in its meandering quality, its concentrate not on the type of end-of-the-world plotting that would have Gerard Butler foaming on the mouth, but within the consolation of friends, lovers, family, acquaintances, and strangers just hanging out. —ES
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