★★★★★ Rewatched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 11 Apr 2018 6. Darren Carver-Balsiger commented on his own review of The Holdovers 19h. Unfortunately The Creator falls short elsewhere. Equality. Now that is scientific fact. Beautiful shots linger, of silhouettes in a landscape and boys stood against a shining sky. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Men don't fight in war, soldiers do. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Scoob! is an abomination. The Germany here is a dystopia, an economically unstable. About this list: A ranking of all the films I've seen by Akira Kurosawa. Set in the 1960s it examines a rough world full of sick and twisted people. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hooptober #29. is a fascinating exploration of modern Europe. The final act especially delivers some creative, action-packed sequences, often filmed against stylish red lighting. The film's biggest successes are twofold. Darren uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: I have to respect Pearl for its incredible visual texture, achieved on such a low budget. Shinkai is purposefully blind to real life issues because he wants to be romantic at all costs. Imagination and wit is not limited by physical limitations. Samurai movies and old space operas inspired Star Wars . Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★★ 6. There is no strict character development in La Dolce Vita, just a slither of a story about a hedonistic reporter getting lost amidst an amoral landscape. Yet somehow, and only with hindsight, the opening fifteen minutes are the best part of Halloween: Resurrection. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: "Liberty. Grid; List; Published 2019-11-06T22:24:33. Soleil Ô is a furious sprawl of a movie, dissecting racial tensions in a theoretically decolonised world. Every frame is a perfectly constructed, twisty tale of love, lust and fetishism underneath a story of deception, lies and greed. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Fisherman's Diary is a deeply flawed film, though it has the noble intention of encouraging gender equality in education. Martyrs is a deeply traumatising work, not just because it depicts evil, but because it captures both physical and mental torture. Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker is the perfect deconstruction of romanticised revolutions. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s Watchlist. It is completely unoriginal, mashing together ideas from loads of better movies. The location work is also impressive here, perhaps. Sadly, most episodes of the 2005 onwards revival are not on Letterboxd, so I didn't include them. 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. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: A cry of anger and frustration. I would have called it pretentious wank but it's so empty I don't even think it's trying to say something. Paths of Glory is a harrowing film, starting off as a war picture then becoming a courtroom drama and finally a tragedy. No repeated titles. 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. Glorious revolution. It examines a world set after the current fighting taking place right now. This isn't trying to recreate the original in a totally faithful way, but build its own horror. Fear in the Night is a late Hammer thriller that tells a nice, twisty story but lacks originality. Films where the film title is a person's name. It has a purity, delving into the beauty of childhood innocence but never avoiding tough topics. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: You can also read this review at Cineflix Daily. N. There is nothing to say about Oppenheimer which does justice to its incredible cinematic experience. The film is fiery and violent, with loads of explosions and gunfire. A list of 415 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Come and See (1985), The Thing (1982), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Psycho (1960) and Funeral Parade of Roses. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The most confident of directorial debuts, Pather Panchali is the most valuable kind of cinema. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Memories. 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. Watched Dec 13, 2020. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Outsiders presents a mythical, rural, teenage reality. It turns out to be episodic, though interconnected through a few twists and turns. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: A silhouette runs in front of the sun. Every watch reveals a different movie. For the most part, the plot is not literally about murder, and thematically it is never about murder. 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. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake offers very little compared to the original. This time I felt like a fallen god, thinking I knew it all only to learn there was even more to unearth. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: "Now one of the most powerful forces reshaping our world is unprecedented mass migration. Sight & Sound. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Past Lives is beautifully made. It is one of the most beautifully crafted movies of recent years, a film of simmering romantic tension that almost always stays quiet. About this list: Pessimistic worldviews. The Killer is a doomed romance disguised as a buddy cop film inside a gangster film. The dubbing is awkward, the visuals have a cheap digital look, and the effects are terrible. About this list: Pessimistic worldviews. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Ossos is a quiet look at people suffering and the compassion they can share. It opens with a forty minute prologue, that would be a perfect short film by itself, but manages to then spend the rest of the runtime peeling away all the leftover feelings that linger. Showgirls could be described as a high budget exploitation flick. Yet it slowly reveals social anarchy and the everyday fascism of family life. Change. It's a film of murder, rape, and mutilated corpses, shown in ways his previous films would only imply. Victory Song is very overt Japanese war propaganda. ". 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. He also gives tips for other members on how to build their own relationship with the. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Poor Things allows Yorgos Lanthimos the opportunity to fully embrace the surreal in his own quirky way. 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). [deleted] • 9 mo. 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. I did include the 1996 TV movie. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. At the centre of the film is an unwise, selfish decision, and its consequences spiral out to ruin lives. Everything is so iconic. Many WWII films focus on the fighting and usually save thematic deliberation for the downtime. Christianity does not offer salvation in The Wicker Man, it becomes a weakness. Posted by u/borisdandorra - 8 votes and 10 comments Darren Carver-Balsiger commented on his own review of The Holdovers 19h. The cinematography, with its frequently out-of-focus backgrounds, is garish and irritating. About this list: Movies made by auteur directors with a very arthouse sensibility, that happen to be genre movies (e. The editing deceives us overtly and sometimes subtly. Darren is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. Made as a TV. It is told through the perspective of the press and the tension of just what is going to happen is hypnotically engrossing. Remove filters; Fade watched films;. Wes Anderson. The world is one of dead bodies, to be dug up or buried, examined and. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: It's a shame Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture. About this list: 20/03/2023 My 500 favourite films. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Atlantis presents a post-apocalyptic vision of Ukraine's future with just 28 shots. Images of war are cold and mechanical, even. About this list: Based on a suggestion by MasterLundegaard, I thought it'd be fun to have a community vote to find the best loved romance films on the site. Haunted dreams. A list of 64 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Duck, You Sucker (1971), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Napoleon (1927), October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927) and Battleship Potemkin (1925). Sign in to create or like lists; Share. Mabuse, the Gambler is one of the creepiest films of the silent era. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of the most intense movies ever made and one whose scares held up for me upon this re-watch. It's a proper romance movie at its core, with a more adult view of love than Pixar's previous films. Killers of the Flower Moon is a masterpiece of evil, a film of the horrors of man. He doesn't know who to pursue or what to do. Service. Darren uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Dracula 3D is just bafflingly poor on a technical level. About this list: An accompaniment to the Letterboxd Top 250, which sadly contains very few horror films. It conducts a psychological character. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: This film is available on Amazon. Director Elio Petri concocted a work that picked apart the weaknesses and failures of Italian policing, merged with the. About this list: A ranking of all the films I've seen by Akira Kurosawa. Join here. Jabison113. These are the horror films on Letterboxd with the highest average rating. Burning is a mystery with no solution. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The vast majority of Blonde is a masterpiece. Its characters are insects in a a web. The Godfather: Part II is superior to the first film. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hooptober #29. A list of 30 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Seven Samurai (1954), Ikiru (1952), Ran (1985), High and Low (1963) and Red Beard (1965). 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. 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. It does not idolise or admire poverty, but accepts such a reality and builds from there. Stuff happens, but nothing really happens, and it all means nothing. I thought I'd share movies that. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. A bright future left behind, a dark void remaining. ★★★★★ Rewatched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 20 Apr 2018 17 Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is a cornerstone of cinema, raising storytelling and formal technique to a very high bar. Between this and 3 Idiots there's clearly a message to de-stress education, let people learn in their own way, and encourage creativity. It's clearly a personal passion project, and strays away from following formula entirely. Find Darren Carver-Balsiger's articles, email address, contact information, Twitter and moreSee new Tweets. High Life is harsh and pointless, an exercise in futility. About this list: Pessimistic worldviews. Dracula 3D contains some of the most crude and unconvincing CGI I. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Born in Flames presents an alternate America, one supposedly liberated and socialist, rejecting both communism and fascism. Pretentious statements and philosophical musings are nowhere to be found. A list of 250 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Thing (1982), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Psycho (1960), Alien (1979) and The Shining (1980). These are very loosely ranked. It is a tale of greed and violence, strung out across hours, with a dark story emerging in the most stark and frank way. Empire of Passion is a dark tale of murder and guilt. Colossal Youth is a stunningly beautiful work. LATEST UPDATE: NOVEMBER THE 1ST OF 2023 New or back on the list: 1917 at #39 The Magnificent Seven at #222 Gone from the list: The Great Silence (no longer classified as action) - was #43 Iron Monkey - was #249 I was shocked to see no one had made a top 250 for action movies, so I made one myself. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s lists. Instead it's mostly a Bergman-esque chamber piece with philosophical musings. Films where the film title is a person's name. Satantango 1994. The Northman is fantastic in all regards, except for its story. The final act is silly and far-fetched, but not in a particularly endearing way. Highest First; Lowest First; Other; Your Interests. It is visually spectacular. A film so in touch with its spiritual and historical premise, yet abundant in bursts of genre. ★★★½ Watched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 27 Nov 2019 26 **Minor Spoilers** Knives Out isn't a murder mystery. It is about the dehumanisation of war, the reduction of man into weaponry. It is the story of a widow who struggles her entire life to pay for her son's education, and eventually sending him away to study and become a great man. The film is also beautifully shot, with shining colours that make the whole world vibrant. It is less a socio-political drama and more a grand historical tale that transcends a critique of any particular moment in time. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Mild spoilers, but the film isn't worth watching anyway. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s 2023 to date. Yet Eileen. The parallels to Star Wars are obvious, but something more fundamental is apparent. It is genuinely eerie at times, with a very slow burn approach that elicits something creepy and. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: 10 years of strong, but mostly unremarkable, blockbusters lead us to Avengers: Infinity War . A list of 999 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Psycho (1960), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Shining (1980), Alien (1979) and The Thing (1982). The personification of elements is just a very basic concept. The Cremator begins quirkily, with odd subject matter and fast edits. It's a film of bodies in movement, of great expanses of water, of dances and community. Darren is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. 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. However Athena as a whole does not live up to that beginning. Acting as. ★★★★½ Rewatched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 08 Apr 2021 Suspiria is a loud movie, in its blaring, repetitive music and also its bright, bold colours that shine across the rainbow. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Holdovers is very likeable, very funny, and very sentimental. A man, dirtied and shirtless, wanders across a burnt landscape. Visibility Filters. Dr. 347Z. About this list: An accompaniment to the Letterboxd Top 250, which sadly contains very few horror films. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★ 33. List by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Every second pulsates with energy, heart, and intensity. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. It deals with spirituality in a world that does not make sense, which makes belief more of a risk for the characters. The premise is basically that a. Powered by JustWatchReview by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ The raw energy of Brother makes for cinema that has an impact. In the comments below,. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: American bloodshed. A list of 250 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Thing (1982), Psycho (1960), Alien (1979), The Shining (1980) and Get Out (2017). Braveheart is pitiful and I feel truly insulted by it. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s 2023 to date. It feels experimental and low budget, built upon a digital aesthetic that looks amateur. 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. Infinity Pool is raw and uncompromised, extreme cinema at its most conceptual and intriguing. Ordered by films titled with a full name, then just first names, and then surnames. It is so broad and mainstream that it ends up dumb and patronising, treating the audience as fools. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a beautiful movie, and in fact a beautiful consideration of the human experience. About this list: Douban is an all-purpose Chinese social media. It's about guiding the spirits, taking those who have passed and making peace with them. ★★★★★ Rewatched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 16 Oct 2017 2 I think my previous review basically covered most of the points I have to say about Blade Runner 2049 (yes, I still maintain it's a little too fast paced in parts), but this viewing really cemented in my mind that it's almost certainly the greatest blockbuster of recent times. --- Contribute to my other lists. You're a different person when you're on holiday. All Time 100 81% 81 of 100. A list of 300 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), TÁR (2022), RRR (2022) and Aftersun (2022). Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Many regard Martin Scorsese’s epic Casino as a lesser work. It's a drama to be stirred by and also contemplate as a statement on artistic desire and childhood challenges. Just to give you an idea of what you might see, here are some of my pumpkins. The best pumpkin carvers from around the country are here to do what they do and you should check it out. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s lists. Fire of Love is not a generic talking heads documentary, but a film crafted from archive footage and short animated sections. What a load of shite. It does so in a way that is emotional and provides real closure for the current series. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: A waltz with eternity. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Phoenix is a story of deception that plays in multiple ways, with layers of identity hidden between different masks for different people. Watched Sep 18, 2017. Talk to Me 2022 ★★★ Watched Aug 21, 2023. Read at your discretion. Newest First; Earliest First; Darren’s Rating. It exists in a world of judgment, where characters feel attacked by expectations while also being expected to judge others. Basically: all of these were shown in. No other word in the title besides a name. Cinematographer Sven Nykvist's command of colour is as strong as his black and white photography for earlier Bergman films. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: This review may contain spoilers. Drive My Car is a soft-spoken drama about the lies and pain we choose to accept. Only the sequences in the snow drag it down a little, as well as a whole host of other nitpicks that distract from a film that tries so hard to seem well thought out. It conducts a psychological character study, which makes this all the more. Secondly, it's a visual treat. Ugetsu is Mizoguchi's horror film, a nightmare across this life and the next. suspicious_loaf • 9 mo. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: I was rather indifferent towards Incendies. 3,327 films watched. One, it's really funny, with vulgar deadpan dialogue delivered hilariously by great actors. Reclamation of self. Films that are no longer on the current list left for one of the following reasons: -. The emotions are subtle and unspoken. Join here. Makoto Shinkai is a mixed director at best but his work was certainly improving over the years. Here are my favourites 😀: letterboxd. About this list: Films where a city defines the film to the point where it becomes an integral character. These are the horror films on Letterboxd with the highest average rating. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★ 63. A gasp of “wait, this is going to be three and a half hours!?!”Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Strength versus weakness is constantly returned to. Hooptober #25. Weathering with You is really bad. 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. Suggestions welcome. It's his most complex movie that isn't cluttered, and certainly his most deep. We observe and experience, we do not know why things happen. Of all the films distributed by Netflix, I think Roma is the one which most deserves to be seen in the cinema. The Bridge on the River Kwai establishes itself as a superb wartime adventure. Service. The world is populated with mysterious strangers and the topics dealt with (death, domestic. Fast X 2023 ★½ . 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). Watched Mar 18, 2022. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: You can also read this review at Cineflix Daily. As a film it savours tension, saving the horror moments for just a few effective scenes. From the very opening shot, of a huge crowd, it becomes clear that this is one of Mizoguchi's most epic movies. Opening Night is a film of a woman struggling, unstable in her own life. Politics. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: R. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: 3000 Followers Celebration. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hitchcock's Frenzy is a nasty film, easily the cruelest of his that I have seen. Nominally the film set in the fictional republic of Eldorado, but the allegory for Brazilian politics is. It doesn't make any giant missteps, but the story is largely. It deals with the clutter we acquire and the process needed to clear up our lives. These are the horror films on Letterboxd with the highest average rating. Countdown to the end of the world. Hello Columbus redditors! I am in your fine city this weekend to carve pumpkins at the zoo. is a fascinating exploration of modern Europe. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Creator looks fantastic, and it does achieve the feeling of a future implanted over our real world very well. About this list: Films where a city defines the film to the point where it becomes an integral character. It very much feels like the work of an outsider looking in, not really telling us a. Unfortunately, as soon as the setup is established, the film promptly becomes ridiculous and gets convoluted in nonsensical plotting and illogical. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s Watchlist. 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: The man who ended the world. About this list: Made this list for my friend Alex. It's a shame however that the commercial success far exceeds the quality of the film. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Bad Sleep Well has a superb opening set piece, featuring an arrest at a wedding. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Werckmeister Harmonies is a film of constant symbolism and allegory. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s 2022 in review. To fight for what is right is violent and tough. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Boiling Point is a one shot film, executed authentically, and I'm pleased the film doesn't use this style as a gimmick. Join. It is bookended by montages of soldiers, planes, tanks, warships, and factories. To be updated for every 10 movies I watch. What a load of wank. • 9 mo. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Men don't fight in war, soldiers do. No other word in the title besides a name. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. 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. 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. Final Cut . Darren is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Shakespeare within the Japanese mountains. Mild spoilers, but the film isn't worth watching anyway. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. CryptoDarren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hammer to the face. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hooptober X. Instead a modernising city brings change and new economic roles for women. It is firmly stuck in Fassbinder's harsh, icy world and is a film of cold intellectualism. It reflects the calm of life, through still shots of windows and beds and phones, and yet it reveals a constant inner chaos. Last year, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman was released on Netflix to a collective gasp. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: I find Aamir Khan's commitment to bringing social issues to a mass audience to be very admirable. Casino 1995 ★★★★½ . dondante Chris 🔮 David Wheeler Haddaway7 BrandonHabes Michael's Cinema Paradiso Albie Hay Ana Pedro Gonzalez Sagaidak toro913 ThereWillBeDuck James Kathz Cinefan Jamie Stead Matthew B. About this list: Science fiction is one of my favourite genres, and I thought it'd. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The least known film by Studio Ghibli, Ocean Waves is a brilliant little film from the anime powerhouse. A man who believes cremation relieves a burden is the lead character, a rather strange setup. A list of 500 films compiled on Letterboxd, including 12 Angry Men (1957), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 2046 (2004), 3-Iron (2004) and The 400 Blows (1959). About this list: This list is no longer being updated. The fourth and fifth entries were already struggling to come up with fresh ideas, and VI barely has anything interesting happening even though the change in setting provides a superficial distinction to the previous movies. Eyes Without a Face is creepy and unnerving at first, as we wonder just what is happening. A 26-year-old software engineer from Leeds, England, Darren chats with fellow list-maker extraordinaire Jack Moulton about how the Letterboxd community has. About this list: A ranking of all the films I've seen directed by. What starts as fiction becomes a fake documentary and then descends into madness. These are very loosely ranked. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: All you have is your mercy. It mostly boils down to a. It isn't trying too hard to grab attention. Tagged. 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. Visibility Filters. A film told backwards, with an ending that defines all else. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: The Wachowski Sisters certainly owe a debt to anime for all the inspiration they've been given throughout their career. Ugetsu draws on folklore and classic Japanese literature to produce quintessential jidaigeki cinema. About this list: Pessimistic worldviews. Before Parasite was the Korean film adored by the West, there was Oldboy. Touching upon patriarchy within Pakistan, Joyland presents a world where sexuality, masculinity, and femininity. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Forrest Gump is not particularly noteworthy as a film, although it is popular. In fact, things got worse, and what little good he did has been undone by Trump's even worse policies. History of the Occult is very easy to admire and be impressed by. Darren Carver-Balsiger ’s all-time stats Share Share to Facebook 3,329 Films 6,159 Hours 1,764 Directors 128 Countries 330w Longest Streak 844 2+ Film Days Top films All time 2020s 2010s 2000s 1990s 1980s 1970s 1960s 1950s The Top 10% My favourite 10% of all films I've logged on Letterboxd. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Part of my 400 followers celebration. Service. Focusing on Mayan characters and told in the Kaqchikel language, Ixcanul is about people living on the side of a volcano. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★½ . It's not that. It had a few million euros spent on it and yet it seems so amateur. It takes real formal confidence to attempt a twenty minute scene like that. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: On the Waterfront is a celebration of the informer, existing in the context of Elia Kazan attempting to cleanse himself after his despicable testimony to the HUAC. It's a film of imagined conversations and ghosts caught in the mind. The ripples of change all build up in The Big City, as shifting attitudes must be adjusted to. Faces are half cast in shadow, these distressed, pain. Though it also plays things very safe. Religious conflict sows the seeds of The Wicker Man, a film of Christian values pitted against degenerate otherness. Director Francis Lee made a fantastic impression with his feature debut God's Own Country a few years ago. ========== 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. Here are my favourites 😀: letterboxd. About this list: My favourite 10% of all films I've logged on Letterboxd. The film follows a girl wanting to go to school but is caught in a patriarchal society that won't let her. However there is something interesting about the craft here. 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. I have little to comment on the film itself, except that it is a decently entertaining story and that's about it. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Timbuktu is a breathlessly simple statement on Islamic fundamentalism and furthermore reveals the hypocrises and truths of human civilisation. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Picking up straight from the end of the previous film, The Battle of Chile: Part II takes us further into the collapse of Allende's government. Just names by themselves. While the first film focused on society, Part II is much more focused on political events and how they unfolded. The Fountain isn't even enjoyable nonsense, it's just overindulgent and boring. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★½ 3. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Eileen is not what you may expect it to be. I'm not adding every single film called Michael, for example. It has a rough, coarse nature and yet finds something beautiful. The masses that moved west to pursue the American. About this list: My favourite 10% of all films I've logged on Letterboxd. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: M. It is the only Malick movie set in the past which I do not think is a masterpiece. 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). A list of 500 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Stalker (1979), Bacurau (2019), Possession (1981), Solaris (1972) and Blue Velvet (1986). It is partially about trauma and rebuilding everything. It's formulaic, bland, and boring. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Mizoguchi's final film is a return to his classic setup, of poor women in difficult circumstances. The burning virgin. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: An essay through time, The Metamorphosis of Birds appears as a collection of narrated memories. Secondly: fuck those people with institutional power, they will always find a way to oppress the powerless. Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker is the perfect deconstruction of romanticised revolutions. 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). Scenes from a Marriage is a heartbreaking tale of love dying, though by the end it is clear that there are different ways to love. This is a creeping film of shadows, gazing men, and words that follow you. From Wikipedia: Walker is a 1987 American-Spanish historical revisionist film directed by Alex Cox and starring Ed Harris, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval, and Marlee Matlin. While it starts off well, it ends up descending into a fantasy story that feels very old-fashioned and uninteresting. It is about the dehumanisation of war, the reduction of man into weaponry. 115. From Daniel Farrands, director of the abymal The Haunting of Sharon Tate, comes a somehow even worse film. La Haine 1995 ★★★★★ Rewatched Jun 26, 2018. The film's various ambiguities just.