Soupvillain

4y

• Baxter, Vera Baxter

directed by one of my fav authors, the atmosphere and sound design of this film is beyond nuts. I wish I could watch it for the first again.

• Raise the Red Lantern

taught me a lot about the marriage customs in China and it's a female perspective like no other in cinema

• Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Captures the dream-like state in films so wonderfully

• Ran

Shakespeare and Samurais, that's a twist I never expected to see executed so well.

• La Belle Noiseuse

Despite being 238 mins long, I couldn't take my eyes off this one. Best way to watch paint dry xD

Lamont

4y

a guy inside of the store or something. The strangling was way to much

Soupvillain

4y

also every Claire Denis film I've seen is fascinating, even the ones I rate low

Trouble Every Day & Chocolat

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

4y

You're the first one I've seen mention Chocolat on here
Such an underrated gem

Childhood

4y

Both Sofia Coppola and Nicolas Winding Refn outside of their one film that most agree is great (Lost in Translation and Drive) are pretty divisive directors. The two films share a lot of similarities and I honestly like them for a lot of the same reasons too. Setting is LA, viewed as "style over substance", etc...

Bling Ring uses a lot of shots that aren't super up close and personal which if it wasn't that way would probably lessen the value of what I feel like the message is. A bunch of LA teenagers robbing celebrities and flexing is by the nature of its real life events "vapid", but it's clear—especially in retrospect—that the movie isn't really promoting the lifestyle of its characters. That along with the iconic lines (I Wanna Rob !!!), great soundtrack, and Coppola's incorporation of making these dreamlike atmospheres out of anywhere just click for me. I knew back when I saw the trailer when it was getting teased that I would like the movie and it just still stands out to me to this day as just something I personally super enjoy. Definitely deserves its semi-cult status by some Twitter peeps lol

Neon Demon on the other hand is something which is dripping in its aesthetic way more than Bling Ring. It's kind of what I expected Drive to look like based on what people had glorified that movie's features for (Synthwave Neon Lights LA you get the gist). Upon first watch, I was kind of underwhelmed by it. Visually it's peak NWR and is one of the best looking films i've ever watched. Message wise... it's really not apparent at first to me especially with the last leg of the film where the plot choice seemed more as for shock value than to convey anything at all. Despite this, the movie has really stuck with me as I appreciate a lot of the kind of obviously narcissistic things because of course Neon Demon in a sense is a Black Comedy. I do wanna say some of its criticisms are fair. The writing comes off REALLY underbaked first watch, but I also wouldn't want it any other way cause if it was at the same intensity of the visuals than it'd probably be overkill. And yeah Elle motivated me to watch the film. I claim <333

I think I just have a soft spot for a lot of stuff that portrays Los Angeles because from an outside perspective most are gonna think that it's exaggerated when in reality it's not that far from the truth

Lamont

4y

The only movie that i had to turn off. Something about the first murder was so disturbing i couldnt even watch the whole thing