About this list: Pessimistic worldviews. It has a peaceful calm that comes from its mature and sensible characters. What a load of shite. The buildings and locations often appear ruined and dilapidated rather than lived in. The personification of elements is just a very basic concept. Well from the ones I follow would recommend you Silent Dawn ( DirkH (Darren Carver-Balsiger’s (and Prof. Darren Carver-Balsiger @DarrenCarverB · Jul 8, 2021 Finally watched 2,500 films. Burning is a mystery with no solution. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: What really is victory? In The Bridge on the River Kwai, the victory of the imprisoned soldiers is merely that their spirit isn't broken. A man who believes cremation relieves a burden is the lead character, a rather strange setup. The local dialect and untrained actors help provide that. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Memories. Mostly nonverbal, each beautiful second is about immersion rather than clarity. It has a rough, coarse nature and yet finds something beautiful. A list of 1,000 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Satantango (1994), Antichrist (2009), mother! (2017), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000). ★★★★★ Rewatched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 20 Apr 2018 17. 115. The Northman is fantastic in all regards, except for its story. The Big City presents traditions coming to an end. M. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Shaun of the Dead (2004). This is fundamentally a film about Africa and the treatment of its people in a society which now proclaims equality. Killers of the Flower Moon is a masterpiece of evil, a film of the horrors of man. It feels like themes and ideas are treated just like the effects, things to be bolted onto a movie because they are a. Please consider upgrading to a Pro account—for less than a couple bucks a month, you’ll get cool additional features like all-time and annual stats pages (), the ability to select (and filter by) your favorite streaming. The editing deceives us overtly and sometimes subtly. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: M. After the incomparable Persona, Bergman followed it up with three lesser known masterpieces from 1968-69. The opening act is quite exciting, with a lot of ideas and settings thrown together. Ugetsu draws on folklore and classic Japanese literature to produce quintessential jidaigeki cinema. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Taipei Story is a masterpiece of inner feeling. About this list: I recently passed 20,000 followers on Letterboxd, which is an incredible amount and far more than I ever imagined when I started posting my. Empire of Passion is a dark tale of murder and guilt. Here extremism is presented in practice and at face value. The yucky, forced surgery is an incredible highlight, living up to its iconic and truly grim. 23. I went into this rewatch expecting it to be my time to hate it, but no, I still think it's a great film. A list of 250 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Stalker (1979) and The Thing (1982). Darren is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: There are no words which can truly describe the power of silence within The Look of Silence. Find Darren Carver-Balsiger's articles, email address, contact information, Twitter and moreSee new Tweets. I did include the 1996 TV movie. It is bookended by montages of soldiers, planes, tanks, warships, and factories. It exists as cinema designed to immortalise a people and a culture. Yet Eileen. d’Or Winners 61% 61 of 100. It is the greatest philosophical and political allegory since Sátántangó , another film by master auteur Béla Tarr. Looking through my friend's ratings, I anticipate some people will disagree massively with my review. Mabuse, the Gambler is one of the creepiest films of the silent era. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Werckmeister Harmonies is a film of constant symbolism and allegory. Weathering with You is really bad. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Noirvember. While the film begins as a more genre-inflected work, of a serial killer and those searching for him, Holy Spider is much more concerned with its dramatic depictions of religious conservatism within Iran and. This is a film where Park is at the height of his powers, using complex. The script brings an intelligence that many of its contemporaries lacked. Since comedy is his favourite genre, I thought it'd. No repeated titles. Watched Mar 18, 2022. Perhaps no film so carefully examines a revolution in its raw form, whilst remaining an accessible genre piece. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Child of Another is a sparse, often wordless movie, filled with ugly injustice and cruel circumstances. Articles by Darren Carver-Balsiger on Muck Rack. About this list: Movies made by auteur directors with a very arthouse sensibility, that happen to be genre movies (e. It very much feels like the work of an outsider looking in, not really telling us a. Glorious revolution. It is so broad and mainstream that it ends up dumb and patronising, treating the audience as fools. Hooptober X Mario Bava was a composer of images. So much of the film relies on empty space, just moments left to stay blank as men describe horrors. About this list: As we're approaching Halloween and horror is one of my favourite genres, I thought it'd be fun to have a community vote to find the best loved horror films on the site. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The man who ended the world. Its characters are insects in a a web. . I’ve mentioned this in previous threads, but Tony (tectactoe) is steadfastly my favorite reviewer on the platform; I would certainly recommend stopping by his page. At its centre is a story of a woman attempting to improve her house, and from. The characters all contrast with each other strongly, and inevitably they learn to. Reply Popo1on Buntmans •. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The story of killers. The way that Forrest ends up fitting into history is witty and amusing enough. Shinkai is purposefully blind to real life issues because he wants to be romantic at all costs. This isn't trying to recreate the original in a totally faithful way, but build its own horror. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is a savage satire on corruption, bureaucracy, and authoritarianism. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ 2 Manichitrathazhu is a very simple psychological horror movie, playing with a haunted house setup, a ghostly woman, and a bunch of strange happenings. was a mere gust compared to the hurricane [of migrants] that is coming. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Invisible Guest starts off with a decent premise, utilising complex storytelling, unreliable narrators, and a strong central mystery. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: In some ways The Fabelmans in one of Spielberg's most artistically complete movies. Join here. This is Akira Kurosawa at his most ambitious and most mature, making cinema his tool to tell an epic and deeply human story of greed and deceit. It has a funny, subversive take on the genre like Knives Out did, but is mixed with a quaint, symmetrical style slightly reminiscent of Wes Anderson, plus its own homage to Agatha Christie novels and old movies. These are the horror films on Letterboxd with the highest average rating. Here are my favourites 😀: letterboxd. ★★★★★ Rewatched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 30 Oct 2016. Fraternity. Darren is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: At the centre of Biutiful Javier Bardem gives an extraordinary and subtle performance. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: 3000 Followers Celebration. The Killer is a doomed romance disguised as a buddy cop film inside a gangster film. For when you want to wallow in despair. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hooptober #26. Remove filters; Fade watched films;. It is 2025 and all that remains is trauma and death. To fight for what is right is violent and tough. The Russia shown here is one of crime, violence, guns. Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker is the perfect deconstruction of romanticised revolutions. CryptoDarren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hammer to the face. Its endlessly quirky postmodernism is used in service of an offbeat style and complete fun. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ 4. Jabison113. The film is surprisingly clever in many subtle ways with it's themes of cannibalism (and by extension, vegetarianism), irrational. Politics. The second watch felt almost spiritual. Love Massacre is a lot of things. Shots are placed within shots, sound blends across time. The film is a mood piece, a work of beauty and horror. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s reviews. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Little Children is an interesting drama, filled with psychologically complex characters and elements of satire on modern day living. Nobody Loves You and You Don't Deserve to Exist is a powerful look at a kind of social rot that has taken root in a lot of British society. Reclamation of self. Incendies presents itself as a more considered, arthouse thriller, but in reality it's a more populist work, which is not a bad thing. The film follows a man wandering, listening to the people he meets. Spirited Away 2001 ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Jan 2023 12 Rewatched 14 Jan 2023 12Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake offers very little compared to the original. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: American bloodshed. I have a new list, a vote for the best film of 2020, using the same rules as the Academy Awards: boxd. Killers of the Flower Moon is a masterpiece of evil, a film of the horrors of man. Here is an epic with everything: comedy, action, atmosphere. Black Sunday is relatively flimsy in plot but in terms of stylish gothic horror it is among the best. It is a film of lost knowledge, imagining the stories and ideas destroyed by colonialism. A list of 1,000 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Satantango (1994), Antichrist (2009), mother! (2017), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000). Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: It's hard to imagine that The Grapes of Wrath was ever published in America, let alone made into a Hollywood film. No repeated titles. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: I have to respect Pearl for its incredible visual texture, achieved on such a low budget. About this list: This list is no longer being updated. Though it also plays things very safe. Now that is scientific fact. Weathering with You thus minimises real suffering, sexualises and fantasises a love story that has no believable start point, and panders to a vacuous and selfish view of romance. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★½ 7 Constantly nuanced and allegorical, The Silence is a logic-defying film about lonely characters in a wordless world. About this list: An accompaniment to the Letterboxd Top 250, which sadly contains very few horror films. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Embrace of the Serpent has a mystical quality, crafting a story of becoming one with nature and seeing the colours of the night sky which nobody else can. Darren Carver-Balsiger and Jaime Rebanal. " Is this the France that everyone experiences? The characters in La Haine make a good case for the idea that this three word ideal is rarely reached. It’s slow. What a load of wank. The Fountain isn't even enjoyable nonsense, it's just overindulgent and boring. List by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Tagged. Amazon US; Amazon Video US; Apple TV Plus US; Apple TV US; Upgrade to a Letterboxd Pro account to add your favorite services to this list—including any service and country pair listed on JustWatch—and to enable one-click filtering by all your favorites. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★½ 4. Instead a modernising city brings change and new economic roles for women. Read at your discretion. Instead it's mostly a Bergman-esque chamber piece with philosophical musings. A 26-year-old software engineer from Leeds, England, Darren chats with fellow list-maker extraordinaire Jack Moulton about how the Letterboxd community has. Saved searches Use saved searches to filter your results more quicklyLetterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Watched Sep 18, 2017. A list of 7 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Your Name. No other word in the title besides a name. There are previous Hammer films like Taste of Fear or Nightmare which aren't so far away from this. His films are built on atmosphere and a symphony of astonishing genre visuals. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Child is a powerful tale about desperate times. List maestro Darren Carver-Balsiger on arthouse cinema, enduring The Room, obscure essential horror films from around the world and tips for how to conduct a Letterboxd community poll. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★★ 10. Mankind's significance in the universe is. Yet it slowly reveals social anarchy and the everyday fascism of family life. It fails as a follow-up to The Exorcist as it undermines the original and seems to misunderstand why the first film was so good. Dangal is the one most important films of the past decade for movie-making economics, as it is the highest grossing Indian film of all time but also because it reshaped the landscape of the Chinese box office. Dr. After his 1950s output saw a few thematic diversions and a much larger scale, it's quite apt for Mizoguchi's last work to be a more traditional setup. To be updated for every 10 movies I watch. The lead has her face recreated. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: This review may contain spoilers. This is a film of honour, loyalty, and bravery. Powered by JustWatchReview by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★½ 10. About this list: Pessimistic worldviews. 333Z Updated 2023-11-14T12:30:33. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The most confident of directorial debuts, Pather Panchali is the most valuable kind of cinema. Satantango 1994. History of the Occult is very easy to admire and be impressed by. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s lists. ago. About this list: Films where a city defines the film to the point where it becomes an integral character. Secondly, it's a visual treat. About this list: My favourite 10% of all films I've logged on Letterboxd. It's twisted, but in a way which is both beautiful and cold. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Part of my 400 followers celebration. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: "Genetically, paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me. It doubles down on the worst aspects of the garbage original (the totally unfunny humour, the objectification of the female characters, the unappealing military aesthetic) and adds even. It is an anthology film made by many directors, of which one was Kenji Mizoguchi. It is a film about superficial change, of transformations of surfaces. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★½ 11 Charulata is one of Satyajit Ray's most technically accomplished works, filled with precise shots and careful editing. Casino 1995 ★★★★½ . However in other regards Poor Things is. Nolan's precision has earned him. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: It's a shame Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Tagged. Join here. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: American bloodshed. Funeral Parade of Roses is a landmark in gay and trans cinema. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Though it must be said the connection to the first film is very slim. The actors do a great job and they mostly seem believable. It exists in a world of judgment, where characters feel attacked by expectations while also being expected to judge others. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: This review is tagged as spoiler free because the only plot spoilers are well highlighted. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ Making the most out of its limitations, Detour is an atmospheric and doom-filled gem. At its centre is a community built upon centuries of tradition. A list of 303 films compiled on Letterboxd, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Blade Runner (1982), Alien (1979), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It is told through the perspective of the press and the tension of just what is going to happen is hypnotically engrossing. The script is simple and elegant, but captures a rugged shimmer of harshness within the characters. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★½ 10 The Big City presents traditions coming to an end. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Shakespeare within the Japanese mountains. It is completely unoriginal, mashing together ideas from loads of better movies. It mostly boils down to a. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★★ 131. No honorifics allowed, so no "Mr", "Princess", "Doctor" etc. A list of 1,000 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Satantango (1994), Antichrist (2009), mother! (2017), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000). Created for Helen's poll. Unfortunately The Creator falls short elsewhere. From the very opening shot, of a huge crowd, it becomes clear that this is one of Mizoguchi's most epic movies. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Men don't fight in war, soldiers do. The film follows a girl wanting to go to school but is caught in a patriarchal society that won't let her. About this list: This list is no longer being updated. Fluids and the void make up for an almost empty story, one boxed. The story is so complicated, filled with too many. A film so in touch with its spiritual and historical premise, yet abundant in bursts of genre. T. The film embraces the shallowest of lifestyles to reveal the emptiness of it all. With so many bright colours, every image shines. Glorious revolution. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: You can also read this review at Cineflix Daily. In a competitive education system, dyslexia and disability are hated. The Godfather: Part II is superior to the first film. A list of 363 films compiled on Letterboxd, including 2 Hearts (2020), 76 Days (2020), Absent Now the Dead (2021), Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus (2020) and Alberto and the Concrete Jungle (2020). You can hear me talk in more detail about The Wicker Man on Amy's podcast: Video | Audio. Entranced Earth digs deep into a rotten world, finding only failure in the political dynamics of Latin America. ★★★★★ Rewatched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 19 Apr 2017 7 Like a ripe peach, The Handmaiden is a succulent experience filled with delicious and juicy moments. The premise is basically that a. It is acted out and blurred between fiction and truth. Quentin Tarantino. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The ghosts of everyday life. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Steve McQueen. Hooptober #30. Grid; List; Published 2020-06-16T16:31:20. Watched Oct 28, 2019. 🎞️MY TOP FILMS OF 2022🎞️ Only including films released in the UK through cinemas, streaming, or home media. In a way the film is simple, because it consists of talking and direct political statements. It is mostly a film of quiet, in which Madhabi Mukherjee in particular has to sell the emotions using silence. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Ossos is a quiet look at people suffering and the compassion they can share. It's his most complex movie that isn't cluttered, and certainly his most deep. Sorry! What a bunch of nonsense. However the purpose of the War on Drugs was to target a. This is a film of death, of history, of injustice. Following the disintegration of a marriage across years, this is a work about communication and unearthing the underlying unhappiness a couple. Sadly it is also a failure. It is obscure and unending, travelling through pain to reach something significant. Taipei was the centre of a new middle class in a rapidly developed economy. About this list: Films where a city defines the film to the point where it becomes an integral character. Braveheart 1995 ★★ Watched Mar 05, 2022. Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker is the perfect deconstruction of romanticised revolutions. Infinity Pool is raw and uncompromised, extreme cinema at its most conceptual and intriguing. It's a psychological drama, a romance, a mystery, an art film, and finally a horror movie. There is an eroticism and sadism on display, which makes the film so perverse and exciting. In a burnt out, pointless world men die for nothing, but they were no longer men, they were already corpses sent out. Of all the films distributed by Netflix, I think Roma is the one which most deserves to be seen in the cinema. Colossal Youth is a stunningly beautiful work. In fact, things got worse, and what little good he did has been undone by Trump's even worse policies. Religion has always been foreign to me. Ran, a relocated retelling of King Lear, is possibly the greatest film adapted from Shakespeare. A lot of genre films work in this area, although Manichitrathazhu maintains some unique cultural specificity. About this list: Made this list for my friend Alex. Characters are prejudiced against education. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★ I really enjoyed Furie as an exciting and likeable action flick, so I was looking forward to checking out Furies as a prequel. Nominally the film set in the fictional republic of Eldorado, but the allegory for Brazilian politics is. It is about a government being. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★★ 6. For a ranked list of my favourite films, see here. Religious conflict sows the seeds of The Wicker Man, a film of Christian values pitted against degenerate otherness. Poor Things allows Yorgos Lanthimos the opportunity to fully embrace the surreal in his own quirky way. About this list: My favourite 10% of all films I've logged on Letterboxd. So often stories derive conflict from people handling. Showgirls could be described as a high budget exploitation flick. The film is based on the life story of William Walker, the American filibuster who invaded and made himself president of Nicaragua. It's a film of imagined conversations and ghosts caught in the mind. It's not the plot which matters here, but the fun interactions between characters. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Talk to Me has some pretty intense scares, but it's not as interesting as it appears. Darren uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: RIP Max von Sydow, 1929 - 2020. As always with Éric Rohmer, there's an honesty to the dialogue and performances, but A Summer's Tale. Sign in to create or like lists; Share. the Extra-Terrestrial , and Indiana Jones and the. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: All you have is your mercy. Yet it is too effective, too clever, and too influential to be called a failure. Honourable Mentions: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater) Barbarian (Zach Cregger) Boiling Point (Philip Barantini) Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis). Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 ★★★★★ Watched Nov 30, 2016. A 26-year-old software engineer from Leeds, England, Darren chats with fellow list-maker extraordinaire Jack Moulton about how the Letterboxd community has helped him discover obscure gems that aren’t likely to appear on the IMDb Top 250 any time soon. Taipei Story is a masterpiece of inner feeling. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Bela Tarr captures life in all it's glory but he's not a director who seemingly admires the world we live in; instead he captures how shit life gets and presents it to us in the. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: This review may contain spoilers. Favorites: The Wicker Man (1973), Beauty and the Beast (1978), Mommy (2014), Sambizanga (1972). Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: 3000 Followers Celebration. X 2022 ★★★½ . All of Us Strangers 2023 ★★★½ . Bong Joon-ho. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: This film is available on Amazon. I am speechless, even though it's been a few days since I saw Possession. The Cremator begins quirkily, with odd subject matter and fast edits. A list of 500 films compiled on Letterboxd, including La La Land (2016), Casablanca (1942), Mulholland Drive (2001), Don't Look Now (1973) and Blade Runner (1982). No honorifics allowed, so no "Mr", "Princess", "Doctor" etc. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: We are all in eternal revolution. mother! 2017 ★½ . A list of 500 films compiled on Letterboxd, including La La Land (2016), Casablanca (1942), Mulholland Drive (2001), Don't Look Now (1973) and Blade Runner (1982). Sex as an affront to experimentation. The parallels to Star Wars are obvious, but something more fundamental is apparent. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hooptober #29. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Weep. About this list: An accompaniment to the Letterboxd Top 250, which sadly contains very few horror films. It's a proper romance movie at its core, with a more adult view of love than Pixar's previous films. All Time 100 81% 81 of 100. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ 4. It is a tale of greed and violence, strung out across hours, with a dark story emerging in the most stark and frank way. This is the perfect wuxia movie. Grid; List; Published 2019-11-06T22:24:33. Images of war are cold and mechanical, even. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Pirates of Blood River is good fun but a very flimsy effort from Hammer. Then we witness some of the greatest opening scenes of all time, revealing characters who represent righteous justice, crooked. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Every frame is a perfectly constructed, twisty tale of love, lust and fetishism underneath a story of deception, lies and greed. It also locks them out of their Edwardian society, as people. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Scream VI is pretty easily the weakest Scream film. Coppola's movie has a formal playfulness that. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: R. ========== I'd love to see your leagues if you set them up, so please share them with me in the comments if you want! My friend John has produced an excellent resource for creating your own. About this list: The revolution is not a social dinner, a literary event, a drawing or an embroidery; it cannot be done with. It is an audacious work, one plucked from both fantasy and reality. Visibility Filters. I’ve never had faith in any organised teaching or found virtue in the actions of religious groups. Yet the final act really did win me over. The narration is some of the most powerful in cinema and the imagery is evocative. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s 2023 to date. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: T he Nice Guys works best when it relies on the chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. Dario Argento's films always feel a little slapdash, but the fact that he makes his sleaze look beautiful is what separates him from the rest. I'm not adding every single film called Michael, for example. It's solidly made, with some giallo style visuals, and the long stream of twists in. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Saw this projected from a rare 70mm print, with a one-off recorded message from Alfonso Cuarón before the film started. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hoop Dreams is truly an American epic. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: SPOILERS ahead, but I would recommend reading this review regardless. It is a bold political movie that will dishearten those who. “August Top 4 First-time Watches: The Battle of Algiers (1966, Pontecorvo) Beau Travail (1999, Denis) The Only Son (1936, Ozu) Sunset Boulevard (1950, Wilder)”Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: A Summer's Tale is about a young man confused. It's a film of bodies in movement, of great expanses of water, of dances and community. To be updated for every 10 movies I watch. Focusing on Mayan characters and told in the Kaqchikel language, Ixcanul is about people living on the side of a volcano. The film's biggest successes are twofold. Set in a multilingual village, with Romanian, Hungarian, and German speakers, the story becomes emblematic of wider issues in contemporary Europe. Per Decade: 1910s: 1 1920s: 13 1930s: 10 1940s: 15 1950s: 31 1960s: 46 1970s: 53 1980s: 35 1990s: 39 2000s: 41 2010s: 46 2020s: 2 Recurring Directors: 9 films - Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman 8 films - Martin Scorsese 7 films -. Babel adds up to nothing. Not counting festival-only movies (apologies to The Novelist's. Suggestions welcome. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: X is a good, proper horror movie. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. is a fascinating exploration of modern Europe. It's a small story of few characters, with a slightly social realist premise but ultimately far more plotless and artistic. There's no real evidence for it, but it's scientific fact. Fear in the Night is a late Hammer thriller that tells a nice, twisty story but lacks originality. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Todd Field's Tár is an inventive and detailed drama. It does not idolise or admire poverty, but accepts such a reality and builds from there. ========== I'd love to see your leagues if you set them up, so please share them with me in the comments if you want! My friend John has produced an excellent resource for creating your own. Tagged. A gasp of “wait, this is going to be three and a half hours!?!”Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Sansho the. 100 Movies 80% 80 of 100. Christianity does not offer salvation in The Wicker Man, it becomes a weakness. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Little Children is an interesting drama, filled with psychologically complex characters and elements of satire on modern day living. *sigh* I could discuss the politics of this situation a lot. Cinema is the most powerful medium, because it has the ability to be the most objective medium. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. The world is populated with mysterious strangers and the topics dealt with (death, domestic. The masses that moved west to pursue the American. Before Parasite was the Korean film adored by the West, there was Oldboy. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★ 63.