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Woooooooow!
It's like Zabriskie Point with an extreme ending. A fine analysis on the absence of empathy. Haneke is even most able than von Trier in manipulating the viewer. If you are an horror lover this is one of the most frightening movies you’ll ever watch.

French Cinema is still the most interesting in the world. Always crazy, always revolutionary, always original, always interesting, always good stories. I’m shocked that French movies are often the less logged on Letterboxed.
More than review it I invite you to find and watch this heartbreaking beautiful movie with wonderful animations.

2025
Shame on you!!

Love it. It’s a total stranger in Cronenberg filmography. The cinematography and the landscapes are gorgeous. John Saxon is a totally deserving villain. Big B-movie energy. Funny, entertaining. Exquisitely camp.

Cronenberg is interesting even when he does bad (and in my ranking this is the third time that he did bad). 
A big part of the movie is excellent, but the last 40 minutes are a train wreck that destroy the entire product. And there is the same problem of Crimes of the future: nothing happens. It’s two hours of cronenerghian dialogues and people saying cronenberghian things.
The theme of the impossibility to rationalize the loss of the loved one had a great potential. Cronenberg at this point of his career is able to write something with his left hand and make it work. Like Woody Allen did with Coup the chance. But as said above unfortunately the third act is a total mess. He really didn’t know how to close his story.
It’s a delusion, but deserves a watch.
The thing I loved the most is the protagonist’s nightmares progression. Dream by dream they become more and more disturbing. And also the avatar going crazy was delicious.

Vincent Cassel is a PRO dilf.

Grateful that this beautiful movie won an important prize at Cannes. Oscars, cesars and EFA totally ignored it

Watching this after covid era is funny. It could be no-vax favorite movie but I doubt that they would be able to find a Cronenberg movie from the seventies.

Anyway Rabid is far from being the best of the Canadian Maestro. The first part is messy and clumsy, but as the story proceeds it goes totally crazy and it’s entertaining.

Side notes:
-loved the score (surprised that Shore isn’t the composer here)
-why there was that Freud reference from the girl who needed nose surgery?

David Cronenberg ranked

Judi
Dench
Oscar 
Victory
Should 
Have
Been
For
This
Period.

50th first watch of the year!

Irish Kore-eda. Loved the bucolic atmosphere of this delicate story. If you liked this I suggest to read Young Mungo. It’s set in the 80s in Scotland and it’s about a young boy trying to flee from a violent context while discovering love.

My current mood is “not another favor, please”

For me it’s crucial how it will go at Cannes.
I loved Hereditary and Midsommar, but after Beau is afraid I have no more faith in Ari.

It’s a very very terrible sequel. Worst than I expected. Uninteresting, flat and if my suspects are true it’s one of the worst screenplays written with ChatGPT. It must be ChatGPT. A human being can’t write something so awful.
The Italian cliches are old as Eve Marie Saint (hey internet, when you were on fire for Emilia Perez? Probably not, your memory last 7 days at most).
And the fact that the first movie was very good is extremely aggravating.

Blake Lively 😍. If she doesn’t stumble in plastic surgery when she will be over 60 she could be beautiful as Julianne Moore

From Dusk Till Dawn meets The Color Purple… and in that scene also  8 1/2.
I find this storm of five stars to be exaggerated, but I can’t deny that Sinners is a magnificent entertaining blockbuster. It’s a joy to watch and also to rewatch I suspect. The ensemble cast is extraordinary, the work on music is 10. 
Hollywood should take note. This is the path to follow

I didn’t watched this since I wad kid (yes, my proletarians parents had let me watch  everything). There’s something very odd in this movie. I don’t know if is the mise en scene that is a little uninspired or something in the acting. The screenplay is maybe a little messy? The fact is that I didn’t believed it 100%. I like to consider Kim Ki-Duk works as fairy tales, with all the darkness attached to fairy tales. Maybe the problem is that Samaritan Girl is a fairy tale but its context is too near to the real world.
At the same time is a mystery how it works. Probably cause Kim Ki-Duk is one of those great narrators able to make things work even when he’s undertone.

EDIT: not my favorite, but is the one that let you with the most to think about

Kim Ki-Duk ranked

Rewatched it since a long time. I have to say that I prefer the other Kim Ki Duk to this. The raw one of The Isle and Pietà. Compared to his filmography Empty House (yes, I decided to use the Korean title. The international one doesn’t make it justice) is maybe one of his most audience-pleasing movies. It’s safe. It’s a fairy tale as all his stories are, but it is very lighthearted compared to the rest of his fairy tales. Anyway it’s 4 stars, we are talking about a genial movie!

I'm discovering that there is a world of Kim Ki Duk's haters based on his personal life. Well, you shouldn't have waited the scandal. It's quite clear from his movies that he's crazier than von Trier, Cronenberg and Lynch merged together.

Anyway, this is not Facebook. So let's talk about this beautiful masterpiece. Often the genius is in the simple things. And this is the case. This movie has the writing of an ancient tale for kids and visually is a poetry. It's the story of Time, of Life. Of crying as an act of growth.

The American movie everybody’s talkin! 

Ok, I’ll it

Crazy crazy Kim Ki Duk I miss you.
This is one of the maddest contemplative movie you’ll ever watch and plus it would make gen Z asses burn.

And to animalists all over the planet: please stay away from this. Never watch it for any reason in the world.

#hiddentreasures

My 2025

Speechless. The discourse of this movie is simple, but treated in a complex way. And at the same time it’s the story of two families and the story of an individual blinded by egoism and by a cold education. It’s incredible how easily the POV of this story goes from the father, to the children, to the mother and viceversa in such a delicate way that the viewer doesn’t even notice it. 

My 2025

I’m skipping this from 3 to 3.5 and viceversa. It’s beautiful but I think it’s a victim of Park Chan-Wook perfectionism.
JSA is well constructed in its technical achievement, in its writing and in the message it tells.
It’s so well constructed that sometimes keeps emotions aside and this is a story that necessitates a lot of emotional involvement.

2025

Park vs Bong

Park Chan Wook ranked

I stopped the book and threw it away at page 30. The series is worthy aside Paul Mescal d**k?

One of the most beautiful movies in cinema history. Sure it was the n1 reference for La la land (failing).

My 2025

Unrealistic without mimesis as make-believe and excessive. Anyway there’s an authorial technical achievement and some cool ideas, like the gradual destruction of two beautiful bodies.
And we already know that Fargeat will not be stuck in the “your first movie remains your best movie” curse like Eggers or Aster.

My 2025

Has ed enough Oscar madness to recognize that Margaret Qualley gave the most interesting performance?

Rewatched it today. Not too much to say on a movie that already speaks for itself.
Only ed here cause I didn’t ed that is so anti-american that probably if it would have been a 2025 movie, it would have been emiliaperezed immediately.
Dark times, my dears. We live in dark times.

The grandmaster here is Wong Kar-Wai. I’m constantly speechless on how he can find such camera angles in tiny and closed spaces.
In of screenplay (that usually in Wong Kar-Wai movies barely exists) The grandmaster is a kind of little alien in what I’ve watched from this auteur til now, but the director is extremely faithful to himself. Even if it’s a sort of commercial movie the style and the poetry is recognizable.

P.S. what happened to Zhang Zivy? Why we don’t see her in movies anymore?

Wong Kar-Wai ranked

Living and loving my Wong Kar-Wai era.

Wong Kar-Wai ranked

Really this has a 3.5 average rating and Emilia Perez 2.1?

I gave this 3.5? Probably I was drunk. It’s a 3, nothing more.

I don’t want to wake up from this dream. It enters into your blood with music and images. Hypnotic

Happy together? This is the story of loneliness par excellence!

It’s truly a masterpiece. A movie that totally kidnaps the viewer. This is cinema that unfortunately doesn’t exist anymore. The poetry of bodies, colors, space. How could you give so much life to a very tiny apartment? I’ve never experienced something like that. It’s frustrating how even the better things in modern cinema are so didactic. Where’s the space for poetry?
This is my fourth Wong Kar-Wai movie. He’s so similar to Wenders but with the gift to condense his masterpieces in 90 minutes.

My 2025

This was more unheimlich and haunting than I thought. 
It’s a nightmare in the style of Kafka, very surprising in its twists and surreal turns. Loved the directing, it’s so half-2000s (the last days when filmmakers tried to make good movies).

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are two immense actors. I can’t say how much I loved them.

And I don’t want this to sound like a woke or politically correct thing. It really comes from my heart: please Hollywood give us more Adam Pearson. It has over the world charisma and he’s a joy to watch.

2025

Oh my god this aged soooooo bad. I ed it as the scariest thing of the world. It’s a ridiculous comedy and it’s not even camp and looks so cheap. Flat mise en scene and terrible terrible acting.
Looks like a telenovela

It’s s**t but it gets a full bonus star cause it was such a comfort movie in my childhood

So, this is another post Babadook mess like His house or Under the shadow?

I think it’s time. It’s time to switch the rating from 4.5 to 5. I usually don’t go wild for blockbusters. But this is an example of how a big budget should be used.
Iconic songs, two outstanding incredibles and from another universe lead performers, rich and creative production design and costumes (every single background actor is beautiful), Choreographies, an eye of regard to old school musicals and a moving library.
And incredibly you don’t even notice for a single second that every character is completely stupid. That this in an universe where they’re all like the underworld of Us.

Lov u John M. Chu

ed me Faraway, so close. It barely has a plot and it’s so magnetic, its aesthetic is so exquisite. And it’s incredible that this movie has thirty years. 
And most of all *drums roll* it’s under two hours!

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After the disappointment of Mickey 17 I really needed this.
It’s great but it is a little over hyped. Sure is impressing considering it is his second movie. Anyway I think that Mother is the really unsung runner-up in Bong filmography (of course we already know which one is on the top).

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Going through this I thought for the entire time that it would have worked better as a novel. Then I discovered that is was adapted from a novel… so….
The biggest problem of Mickey 17 is that it is an infinite prologue. For almost two hours it never starts and when it starts is obviously good cause we are talking about Bong Joon-ho at the end of the day. But we also already knew that he doesn’t gives his best with English language and Hollywood stars.

Mark Ruffalo is a worldwide treasure.

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This will make your kids stupid. Give them The Lion King, Shrek, Jumanji or Miyazaki instead.
And more than all is boring. Nothing happens in this movie.

Some moments are very funny anyways.

Listed

It’s slightly undertone.
But how I could I give less than five stars to a movie with such a level of writing and the ensemble of some of the greatest actors in cinema history giving their best?

Listed

The ultimate movie about maternity. Sorry Wild Robot.

2023 oscars ranked

Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I and II, A woman under the influence, The Deer Hunter, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver and more.

We have to say something more about American cinema in the seventies? Well, we should talk only about American cinema in the seventies. 

The conversation is a character study, it’s a thriller with an enormous plot twist, it’s a lesson of editing, it’s a lesson of sound editing, it’s a debate on sense of fault.

I’ve particularly loved how quiet the movie is and then it explodes in that moment towards the final part. This ed me The Birds.

Shamefully Listed

Final Fantasy VII stole so much from this.

I wasn’t so sure at the beginning cause it is shamefully violent. But the plot evolves in such an interesting way. It’s inarguably great Cinema

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20 likes and only one of you watched Ghost? In which world have you been raised? So you’re probably the folks who gave 5 stars to I saw the TV glow

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

It's perfect like a lot of 90's american box-office movies were. But what a pro add-on is Whoopi Goldberg in this? One of the most deserved best suppoting actress peformances awarded at the Oscars (and I say it knowing that Diane Ladd was also there).

And the villain was so hot

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I don’t know how some people affirm that Makoto is better than Hayao. Your Name is a masterpiece, but what is this? A story about two selfish individuals that choose to destroy the world.
The garden of words was cringe and I stopped other two Makoto’s movies five minutes from the beginning.
Anyway I recognize that this one is visually beautiful and well written.

Human race doesn’t deserves this beautiful planet

Aged so well. The characters are all so real and well written. The direction is superb. Bening and Moore made such a combo, one of the best. 

Ranked

Special Jury Prize? Oh, Miss Greta this was the Palme D’Or my dear.

That’s Cinema that really still matters and has a purpose.
Gorgeous cast and a golden screenplay.
Get ready for a 3 hours cavalcade where you’ll start to breathe again only when the final credits will roll

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Movies watched by less than 50k that are hidden gems

• The Accusation
• Saint Omer
• Land In Between
• Involuntary
• Play
• The Macaluso Sisters
• Mercy
• Caramel
• Slap the Monster on Page One
• Epidemic

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Emilia Pérez
• The Fabulous Ones
• Incendies
• Nosferatu
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• The Girl with a Pistol
• La Notte
• Here
• Red Desert
• Juliet of the Spirits

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spirited Away
2. Howl's Moving Castle
3. The Boy and the Heron
4. Ponyo
5. Princess Mononoke
6. My Neighbor Totoro
7. Castle in the Sky
8. Porco Rosso
9. The Wind Rises
10. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The father of body horror ranked

1. eXistenZ
2. Videodrome
3. The Fly
4. Spider
5. Eastern Promises
6. A History of Violence
7. Dead Ringers
8. M. Butterfly
9. Scanners
10. Naked Lunch

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
2. Pieta
3. The Isle
4. 3-Iron
5. Samaritan Girl

1. Triangle of Sadness
2. The Square
3. Involuntary
4. Play
5. Force Majeure

1. Roma
2. The Favourite
3. BlacKkKlansman
4. A Star Is Born
5. Green Book
6. Bohemian Rhapsody
7. Black Panther

1. Oldboy
2. Parasite
3. The Handmaiden
4. Mother
5. Decision to Leave
6. Thirst
7. The Host
8. Lady Vengeance
9. Memories of Murder
10. t Security Area

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Breaking the Waves
2. Melancholia
3. Antichrist
4. The Boss of It All
5. Europa
6. Dancer in the Dark
7. Dogville
8. The Five Obstructions
9. Manderlay
10. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Oldboy
2. The Handmaiden
3. Decision to Leave
4. Thirst
5. Lady Vengeance
6. t Security Area
7. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
8. Stoker

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Happy Together
3. Chungking Express
4. Fallen Angels
5. Days of Being Wild
6. The Grandmaster
7. My Blueberry Nights

1. Parasite
2. The Irishman
3. Marriage Story
4. Joker
5. Little Women
6. Jojo Rabbit
7. 1917
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

1. Poor Things
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Anatomy of a Fall
4. The Zone of Interest
5. Past Lives
6. Oppenheimer
7. Maestro
8. Barbie
9. American Fiction
10. The Holdovers

1. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2. The Substance
3. Emilia Pérez
4. Kinds of Kindness
5. Anora
6. All We Imagine as Light
7. Grand Tour

1. The Fabelmans
2. TÁR
3. Triangle of Sadness
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. Women Talking
6. All Quiet on the Western Front
7. The Banshees of Inisherin
8. Elvis

1. Se7en
2. Zodiac
3. Fight Club
4. The Social Network
5. Panic Room
6. Gone Girl
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
8. The Game
9. Mank
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Tree of Life
2. Midnight in Paris
3. Hugo
4. Moneyball
5. The Help
6. The Artist

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Precious
3. A Serious Man
4. District 9
5. Up
6. Avatar
7. The Hurt Locker
8. The Blind Side
9. Up in the Air
10. An Education

I think the top 7 is very solid. It's a miracle that a movie like "The Substance" is nominated even if at this point I would have loved to see also all its technical achivements in the game. But I think that I'll be enough happy with the nominations for picture and directing.
I love Brady Corbet, but I loved more his first and second movie. They both had the "who cares if someone watches it" spirit and I was totally crazy for them. Anyway it's fair for "The Brutalist" being here. It's his more crowds appealing movie.
"Anora" is the one who has the most postive best picture energy. And what an original winner it could be.
I really don't understand the ion behind "Conclave", "A Complete Unkown" and "Nickel Boys". Especially in an year where we had "Jouror n2", "All we imagine as light", "Flow", "Inside Out 2", "Kinds of kindness" and more.

1. Wicked
2. The Substance
3. Emilia Pérez
4. Anora
5. Dune: Part Two
6. The Brutalist
7. I'm Still Here
8. Conclave
9. A Complete Unknown
10. Nickel Boys

1. Amour
2. Beasts of the Southern Wild
3. Silver Linings Playbook
4. Les Misérables
5. Life of Pi
6. Argo
7. Django Unchained

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. Gravity
4. American Hustle
5. Nebraska
6. Her
7. Captain Phillips
8. Dallas Buyers Club

1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2. Boyhood
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. The Imitation Game
5. Whiplash
6. Selma
7. American Sniper

1. The Revenant
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Room
4. The Martian
5. Bridge of Spies
6. Spotlight

1. Moonlight
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. Arrival
4. Lion
5. La La Land
6. Hidden Figures

1. Licorice Pizza
2. The Power of the Dog
3. Dune
4. Don't Look Up
5. CODA
6. Belfast
7. Nightmare Alley

1. Nomadland
2. The Father
3. Minari
4. Sound of Metal
5. Promising Young Woman
6. Judas and the Black Messiah
7. Mank

Excellent year

1. The Social Network
2. Inception
3. Black Swan
4. The Fighter
5. The Kids Are All Right
6. Toy Story 3
7. The King's Speech
8. Winter's Bone
9. 127 Hours
10. True Grit

1. Call Me by Your Name
2. Phantom Thread
3. Get Out
4. Dunkirk
5. Darkest Hour
6. Lady Bird
7. The Shape of Water
8. The Post
9. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The master

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Lost Highway
3. The Elephant Man
4. Wild at Heart
5. Eraserhead
6. Blue Velvet
7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
8. Twin Peaks: The Return
9. Inland Empire
10. The Straight Story

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. I'm Not There
2. Velvet Goldmine
3. Carol
4. May December
5. Far from Heaven
6. Wonderstruck

I accept suggestions

• Luca
• The Master
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Snowpiercer
• Conclave
• House
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Social Network
• The English Patient
• Ex Machina

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranking one of the auteurs of my heart

1. All About My Mother
2. Volver
3. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
4. What Have I Done to Deserve This?
5. Talk to Her
6. Parallel Mothers
7. Pain and Glory
8. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
9. Broken Embraces
10. Live Flesh

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Why I watch his movies?

1. Call Me by Your Name
2. Suspiria
3. I Am Love
4. Challengers
5. We Are Who We Are
6. Queer
7. A Bigger Splash
8. Bones and All
9. Melissa P.

I love Stephen King, so of course I didn’t watched so much adaptations from his opera

1. The Shining
2. Dolores Claiborne
3. The Green Mile
4. Carrie
5. The Shawshank Redemption
6. Misery
7. It
8. The Dead Zone
9. 1408
10. Stand by Me

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Favourite
2. Poor Things
3. Kinds of Kindness
4. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
5. The Lobster
6. Dogtooth

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Magnolia
3. Boogie Nights
4. Licorice Pizza
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Phantom Thread
7. The Master
8. Hard Eight
9. Inherent Vice

1. Scream
2. Scream 3
3. Scream
4. Scream VI
5. Scream 4
6. Scream 2