I saw the new Spider-Man movie. I really liked it. I don’t usually like MCU movies, but this time I admit I had my dose of fun with it and never found it bland nor boring. It delivers what it promises: entertainment, fun, references and hype. The classical hero story archetype is well followed and… Continue reading Spider-Man: No Way Home
Category: Musings
Hong Sang-soo: I Hardly Knew Ye
I watched the new movie by Hong Sang-soo tonight, The Woman who ran. I had previously seen other two of his works and I always found them boring, but this man is internationally acclaimed for his good filmmaking (especially by my former cinema forum teacher), so I went despite of my negative experiences. I did… Continue reading Hong Sang-soo: I Hardly Knew Ye
Papicha
Today I watched a pearl: An movie from an Algerian filmmaker, Papicha (Young Free Woman). It was selected as a candidate for the Oscars as Best Foreign Movie (without official nomination) and got featured in Cannes last year. It just was released here last Friday, with almost flawless critiques. I couldn’t not see it, especially… Continue reading Papicha
Blackkklansman
Yesterday night I couldn’t sleep, so I went to the TV and watched Blackkklansman, that incidentally was being screened. I swear that I knew nothing from this movie, aside of Adam Driver starring in it, and that I believed it was a dark comedy. It turned out to be more. Much more. I was really… Continue reading Blackkklansman
The Bra
I watched a movie called The Bra. I decided myself for this one because the poster made it look like a heartwarming one, and also because it’s a production from Azerbaijan. That intrigued me, since I never had contact with anything of that country before (and I have a soft spot for the Second World… Continue reading The Bra
Doukyuusei (Classmates)
I finally got to watch Doukyuusei yesterday. And it made me think, somehow. I really liked the relationship between both main characters. It’s like a bromance elevated to the maximum exponent. They act as bros and as lovers at the same time, and it’s totally compatible. Which is something I have thought about many times,… Continue reading Doukyuusei (Classmates)
Peckinpah Suite, or the humanity of myths
I just watched Peckinpah Suite, a documentary film about legendary director Sam Peckinpah, narrated by his daughter while visiting the place he spent his final years in. I really got emotional. It isn’t the first time it happens to me. I cried with a documentary about Orson Welles before, too. I don’t know why… I… Continue reading Peckinpah Suite, or the humanity of myths
The Lighthouse
Yesterday evening I watched The Lighthouse. I wanted to do it because I love stories about the sea and the people living from it, albeit I absolutely despise horror. Furthermore, my mother already had watched it this weekend and she had to leave the screening in the middle of the movie, so that raised a… Continue reading The Lighthouse
Orson Welles
I just watched The Magnificent Ambersons, as another step further in my personal journey to understand and appreciate Orson Welles. I feel that with every movie I’m closer to the solution to the puzzle that this man isto me. The thing is, will the outcome have any sense? God, I hope so, because this journey… Continue reading Orson Welles