Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Causeway is a simple and restrained drama. The burning virgin. My favourite 10% of all films I've logged on Letterboxd. The film's biggest successes are twofold. 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. Secondly, it's a visual treat. This is fundamentally a film about Africa and the treatment of its people in a society which now proclaims equality. About this list: Pessimistic worldviews. His films are built on atmosphere and a symphony of astonishing genre visuals. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Part of my 400 followers celebration. The Bridge on the River Kwai establishes itself as a superb wartime adventure. The script is simple and elegant, but captures a rugged shimmer of harshness within the characters. It's a very physical movie, one where you feel the characters and their world. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Shaun of the Dead (2004). After the incomparable Persona, Bergman followed it up with three lesser known masterpieces from 1968-69. It had a few million euros spent on it and yet it seems so amateur. Entranced Earth digs deep into a rotten world, finding only failure in the political dynamics of Latin America. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hooptober X. Suggestions welcome. About this list: Science fiction is one of my favourite genres, and I thought it'd. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: I don't really get the backlash for American Beauty, which now seems to dominate every conversation I see about it. About this list: Films where a city defines the film to the point where it becomes an integral character. It has style and depth without feeling pretentious or above the genre. com Film list: My Top 250 (08/07/2021) Find Darren Carver-Balsiger's articles, email address, contact information, Twitter and more Articles by Darren Carver-Balsiger on Muck Rack. Moonlight 2016 ★★★★★ Rewatched Sep 09, 2018. The buildings and locations often appear ruined and dilapidated rather than lived in. It's about the reality of growing up and the consequences of an. These are… 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 List maestro Darren Carver-Balsiger chats with Letterboxd's head of platform content Jack Moulton about arthouse cinema, enduring The Room, obscure essential horror films from around the world and tips for how to conduct a Letterboxd community poll. About this list: VOTING IS NOW CLOSED SEE THE NOMINATIONS AND VOTE IN THE NEXT ROUND HERE ----- This. 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. Letterboxd 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. It starts with a woman walking across a desert, and then goes to so many other places. It also locks them out of their Edwardian society, as people. Just names by themselves. Newest First; Earliest First; Darren’s Rating. The film is a mood piece, a work of beauty and horror intertwined. For when you want to wallow in despair. However the purpose of the War on Drugs was to target a. What does work however is the depiction of violent class warfare as endemic to America. It feels very connected to the world we live in right now, even though it centres on a world of tradition and classical music. Yet somehow, and only with hindsight, the opening fifteen minutes are the best part of Halloween: Resurrection. Watched Sep 18, 2017. 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. Box Office Mojo. Her style is ferociously unique and her humanising portrayal of people rarely seen in cinema makes for something insightful. 23. What is an edit if not a tear in reality? F for Fake is playful, a movie where everything is a trick. 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). It is partially about trauma and rebuilding everything. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: I have always felt that Steven Spielberg's sensibilities makes him ill-suited to direct serious historical dramas and never is that more clear than with The Color Purple. About this list: My favourite 10% of all films I've logged on Letterboxd. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Athena starts off so strongly, with an incredible long take that would be a perfect short film by itself. r/Letterboxd. The informal trilogy - Hour of the Wolf, Shame, The. suspicious_loaf • 9 mo. There are disturbed and surreal images all throughout the opening credits, setting the stage for something twisted yet to come. The film is about religion at. The Big Sleep is surely one of the coolest noirs, just a big sprawling mystery filled with charismatic characters and mysterious crimes. About this list: Science fiction is one of my favourite genres, and I thought it'd. 30 Oct 2018 Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: As I'm sure many of you are aware, I'm a huge fan of the works of Béla Tarr (especially Sátántang ó,. While her problems manifest through alcoholism, deeper pain can be assumed though the film leaves it unsaid and unexplained. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Pretty much entirely fictional, Corsage is a work of artistic expression and interpretation more than a biopic. 3000 Followers Celebration Picked by: Kosta Jovanović and sciallacooper. Watched Oct 28, 2019. Mostly nonverbal, each beautiful second is about immersion rather than clarity. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★½ . Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: A waltz with eternity. There are flawed films that I love more. It's twisted, but in a way which is both beautiful and cold. It's about the reality of growing up and the consequences of an aimless life. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Dracula 3D is just bafflingly poor on a technical level. [deleted] • 9 mo. Calib McBolts thelistislife42 Rocky Zach Nabors Sean Ishan RanchoTuVu Sabbir Parvez Shohan Blake. This film tries to explore the reality of exorcism by filming a. 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 review published on Letterboxd: "Liberty. 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. However there is something interesting about the craft here. Here are my favourites 😀: letterboxd. ". Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: A single touch on the shoulder, all the love and pain in the world. 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. 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. Focusing on Mayan characters and told in the Kaqchikel language, Ixcanul is about people living on the side of a volcano. He's the most annoying guy in the site imo. I don’t particularly like any but I really cringe at. Darren Carver-Balsiger @DarrenCarverB · Jul 8, 2021 Finally watched 2,500 films. mother! 2017 ★½ . Possession is warped, disturbed, unnerving, distressing, depraved, fucked up, twisted, nasty, horrific, intense, creepy and absolutely brilliant. A gasp of “wait, this is going to be three and a half hours!?!”Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. 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. Rather than just telling a. Aftersun is filled with little moments. Fear in the Night is a late Hammer thriller that tells a nice, twisty story but lacks originality. Nolan's precision has earned him. Darren. It feels like themes and ideas are treated just like the effects, things to be bolted onto a movie because they are a. The historical production design is predictably great and the mild horror allows the story to be the centre rather than the shocks. 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. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. 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). N. Yet it slowly reveals social anarchy and the everyday fascism of family. About this list: Pessimistic worldviews. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Structurally intriguing, Barbarian starts off as one type of horror movie and then becomes another. We observe and experience, we do not know why things happen. German history represents many. A man who believes cremation relieves a burden is the lead character, a rather strange setup. It is the greatest philosophical and political allegory since Sátántangó , another film by master auteur Béla Tarr. It's explicitly based on a real event and inherently political due to its subject matter. The Fountain isn't even enjoyable nonsense, it's just overindulgent and boring. Join here. How Green Was My Valley 1941 ★★★½ . Honourable Mentions: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater) Barbarian (Zach Cregger) Boiling Point (Philip Barantini) Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis). Find Darren Carver-Balsiger's articles, email address, contact information, Twitter and moreSee new Tweets. Every second pulsates with energy, heart, and intensity. There's a further victory, in never wavering from their principles. Samurai movies and old space operas inspired Star Wars . Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★★ 131. Unfortunately, as soon as the setup is established, the film promptly becomes ridiculous and gets convoluted in nonsensical plotting and illogical. About this list: Douban is an all-purpose Chinese social media service. It reflects the calm of life, through still shots of windows and beds and phones, and yet it reveals a constant inner chaos. Grid; List; Published 2019-04-20T13:59:01. Until I was 18, it was definitely the thing I was most a loser about. It's a shame however that the commercial success far exceeds the quality of the film. Stuff happens, but nothing really happens, and it all means nothing. It is a film about being assertive and perceptions of how that is required for success in this world. Every frame looks beautiful, aided by some wonderful. It conducts a psychological character study, which makes this all the more. ★★★★★ Rewatched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 30 Oct 2016. Incendies presents itself as a more considered, arthouse thriller, but in reality it's a more populist work, which is not a bad thing. Hello Columbus redditors! I am in your fine city this weekend to carve pumpkins at the zoo. It is a departure from Mizoguchi's. Refugees have no sanctuary and little hope. Powered by JustWatchReview by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ The raw energy of Brother makes for cinema that has an impact. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: There are no simple answers. Martyrs is a deeply traumatising work, not just because it depicts evil, but because it captures both physical and mental torture. Killers of the Flower Moon is a masterpiece of evil, a film of the horrors of man. For those who ever revisit it, they forget how darkly comic so much of it seemed at first. A man, dirtied and shirtless, wanders across a burnt landscape. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: I was rather indifferent towards Incendies. It is the only Malick movie set in the past which I do not think is a masterpiece. Shot in an. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: You can also read this review at Cineflix Daily. Taipei was the centre of a new middle class in a rapidly developed economy. It's like an Ozu movie, knotted in the tension between old and new. Looking through my friend's ratings, I anticipate some people will disagree massively with my review. About this list: Pessimistic worldviews. It doesn't make any giant missteps, but the story is largely. It is about the dehumanisation of war, the reduction of man into weaponry. Dr. This is new kind of event cinema, a film built on the back of 18 others, with over 20 already established cinematic heroes, at least 10 other reprising characters, and a villain setup over 6. It is a glibly exploitative movie that relies on partaking in the death of animals, graphically showing such death. 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). The film embraces the shallowest of lifestyles to reveal the emptiness of it all. Between this and 3 Idiots there's clearly a message to de-stress education, let people learn in their own way, and encourage creativity. Just to give you an idea of what you might see, here are some of my pumpkins. High Life is harsh and pointless, an exercise in futility. 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. Behaves like an absolute twat in the comments and has a very narrow minded view of what good cinema is. is a fascinating exploration of modern Europe. To the characters in Maurice, homosexuality locks them in, unable to share their feelings with anyone. For when you want to wallow in despair. Instead it's mostly a Bergman-esque chamber piece with philosophical musings. That is, the 1963 - 89 original 26 season run. 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). Class consciousness is something rarely seen in the media, but it's important that we're aware of it. Chloé Zhao is perhaps the greatest new director to emerge in the past few years. 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’s Diary Date. 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. Love Massacre is a lot of things. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Scream VI is pretty easily the weakest Scream film. This is a film where Park is at the height of his powers, using complex. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★½ 25. This time I felt like a fallen god, thinking I knew it all only to learn there was even more to unearth. Watched Jul 06, 2018. Trauma. 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: Forrest Gump is not particularly noteworthy as a film, although it is popular. Fire of Love is not a generic talking heads documentary, but a film crafted from archive footage and short animated sections. Conversation“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 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. It is at times very unpleasant and its constant commitment to style will ultimately limit the audience, but Blonde is astonishingly executed. 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 Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: R. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: My predominant feeling about Armageddon Time was that it seemed very uninteresting. Poor Things allows Yorgos Lanthimos the opportunity to fully embrace the surreal in his own quirky way. “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. 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. It's a strange film that remains unpredictable to the end. It's a fascinating experiment, abstract and disjointed. The film is a mood piece, a work of beauty and horror. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Eyes Without a Face is creepy and unnerving at first, as we wonder just what is happening. The film follows a man wandering, listening to the people he meets. At its centre is a story of a woman attempting to improve her house, and from. While it starts off well, it ends up descending into a fantasy story that feels very old-fashioned and uninteresting. About this list: CLICK HERE FOR THE UPDATED 2023 LIST ----- A one-off list for Halloween 2020, of the 1000 highest rated horror films on Letterboxd. is a fascinating exploration of modern Europe. The film's various ambiguities just. Tagged. ========== More information. It exists in a world of judgment, where characters feel attacked by expectations while also being expected to judge others. . In a competitive education system, dyslexia and disability are hated. Satantango 1994. Countdown to the end of the world. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Park Chan-wook's Lady Vengeance is an immaculately framed, incredibly gripping psychological thriller. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Noirvember. About this list: Today is my birthday, so I thought I'd post something. Maurice 1987 ★★★★ Watched May 14, 2019. Many WWII films focus on the fighting and usually save thematic deliberation for the downtime. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: R. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s lists. Tagged. But Scoob! is a terribly soulless and bland imitation of Scooby Doo. Looking through my friend's ratings, I anticipate some people will disagree massively with my review. 899Z. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Spermy Solaris. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ 4. About this list: Movies made by auteur directors with a very arthouse sensibility, that happen to be genre movies (e. Knock at the Cabin 2023 ★★★ Watched Feb 05, 2023. 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). Instead, Ocean Waves is a high school film. was a mere gust compared to the hurricane [of migrants] that is coming. Darren Carver-Balsiger or Daniel PG Simpson (Eyebrow Cinema on YouTube). Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: No Time to Die is a Bond film of significance, tying together all the loose ends from the Daniel Craig era of Bond. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Sanctuary is an intriguing two-hander, playing with a series of shifting power dynamics performed by two great actors. It is so broad and mainstream that it ends up dumb and patronising, treating the audience as fools. So much of the film relies on empty space, just moments left to stay blank as men describe horrors. I would have called it pretentious wank but it's so empty I don't even think it's trying to say something. Fear in the Night is a late Hammer thriller that tells a nice, twisty story but lacks originality. Every watch reveals a different movie. 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. What a load of shite. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: This review may contain spoilers. It remains a unique landmark for the genre. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Todd Field's Tár is an inventive and detailed drama. It is an immersive, intense work, but its dependence on narrative takes away from the themes and experience. Darren is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. It is lengthy by his standards, shot in colour, and. From Daniel Farrands, director of the abymal The Haunting of Sharon Tate, comes a somehow even worse film. 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. (2016), The Garden of Words (2013), Suzume (2022), Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) and Weathering with You (2019). The film is fiery and violent, with loads of explosions and gunfire. The Big City presents traditions coming to an end. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: It's a shame Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Shots are placed within shots, sound blends across time. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Given how popular British literature is, I always find it interesting watching classic Hollywood films which are set in specific regions in Britain because they blatantly disregard. The lead has her face recreated. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Likely Kurosawa's funniest film, and almost certainly his most overtly comedic effort, The Hidden Fortress is an incredibly fun adventure movie. Why Make Long Movies? : The Beauty of Five Hour Epics. It's not that. It is a film about dying, and how that makes every second of living valuable. Equality. Religious conflict sows the seeds of The Wicker Man, a film of Christian values pitted against degenerate otherness. It examines a world set after the current fighting taking place right now. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Ixcanul is a slow burn, but it highlights a culture rarely seen onscreen and immerses through its careful, contemplative tragedy. A lot of genre films. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Bus 174 takes one incident of crime and unearths so many different types of social failure. 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. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: X is a good, proper horror movie. Mankind's significance in the universe is. The Fountain isn't even enjoyable nonsense, it's just overindulgent and boring. Imagination and wit is not limited by physical limitations. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. Anyway, I just learnt that the entire original run of Doctor Who is on Letterboxd. 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. com Film list: My Top 250 (08/07/2021)Articles by Darren Carver-Balsiger on Muck Rack. Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 ★★★★★ Watched Nov 30, 2016. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: A hideous piece of corporate cinema, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is just ugly film-making. It fails as a legacy sequel because the references to the past are tenuous and forced. However, aside from those things, Biutiful is an underwhelming effort. Coppola's movie has a formal playfulness that. Tagged. Its endlessly quirky postmodernism is used in service of an offbeat style and complete fun. Beautiful shots linger, of silhouettes in a landscape and boys stood against a shining sky. Braveheart is pitiful and I feel truly insulted by it. Infinity Pool is raw and uncompromised, extreme cinema at its most conceptual and intriguing. Joyland is about the inner turmoil within the lives of a few people, but its depiction of repression and desire feels very expansive. Fluids and the void make up for an almost empty story, one boxed. 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 Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Elemental is built on ideas that are terribly derivative for Pixar. 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: Hooptober #16. Join here. Rewatched Apr 09, 2017. It's not the plot which matters here, but the fun interactions between characters. Protest footage plays, subplots of young ambition push the story forward, yet it is the. Shame is one of Ingmar Bergman's greatest films, and a film that is distinctively his work even though it has a few atypical features. imgur. Images of war are cold and mechanical, even. You can hear me talk in more detail about The Wicker Man on Amy's podcast: Video | Audio. 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. While the first film focused on society, Part II is much more focused on political events and how they unfolded. Sansho the Bailiff is a humanist film of humble scope. It is a bleak and gory film, but less unrelentingly disturbing than the other films in Park's Vengeance Trilogy. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ Making the most out of its limitations, Detour is an atmospheric and doom-filled gem. Like Stars on Earth is an open critique of education which shames dyslexic students. Reclamation of self. It is filled with deliberate inaccuracies, mistruths, and anachronisms. Honesty, if you look into him further than his Letterboxd karsten isn’t that bad. To the best of my knowledge, these were released theatrically around the time of original release (even if at film festivals or just one screening) or had a theatrical release and then later released an extended cut on home media. As a film it savours tension, saving the horror moments for just a few effective scenes. ★★★★★ Watched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 24 Oct 2016 4. 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. Araya is cinematic art in its purest form. Ratigan (that made this amazing list - Mine is this if you want to check it: Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: What a load of wank. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: "Genetically, paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me. The final act especially delivers some creative, action-packed sequences, often filmed against stylish red lighting. Makoto Shinkai is a mixed director at best but his work was certainly improving over the years. It is completely unoriginal, mashing together ideas from loads of better movies. For when you want to wallow in despair. The emotions are subtle and unspoken. It exists just as a collection of memories from one holiday, but what it achieves is far greater. Key scenes take place in fire and rain, revelling in the. It's a film of bodies in movement, of great expanses of water, of dances and community. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger Patron. The production design, makeup, and costumes are all exceptional and uniquely detailed. It has a purity, delving into the beauty of childhood innocence but never avoiding tough topics. It isn't trying too hard to grab attention. It finds an elegant and natural way to discuss disability, by focusing on what can be achieved and not what can't. Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★½ 4 I admire the existence of Missing , and the way it makes clear US involvement with murderous regimes in Latin America. There are previous Hammer films like Taste of Fear or Nightmare which aren't so far away from this. Service. About this list: An accompaniment to the Letterboxd Top 250, which sadly contains very few horror films. We want to feel success and win through the success of others, and if that means turning a blind eye to abuse, that is what we do as a world. Their lives are encased inside a closed economy, where fish and salt define. Sign in to create or like lists; Share. 115. ★★★½ Watched by Darren Carver-Balsiger 27 Nov 2019 26 **Minor Spoilers** Knives Out isn't a murder mystery. It had a few million euros spent on it and yet it seems so amateur. As always with Éric Rohmer, there's an honesty to the dialogue and performances, but A Summer's Tale. Following the disintegration of a marriage across years, this is a work about communication and unearthing the underlying unhappiness a couple. One, it's really funny, with vulgar deadpan dialogue delivered hilariously by great actors. There are so many bad and clumsy edits. It's a psychological drama, a romance, a mystery, an art film, and finally a horror movie. I’ve never had faith in any organised teaching or found virtue in the actions of religious groups. AFI 100 Years. It is more vague, stuck in history and not just a single fictional, self-contained story. ★★★★★ 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. Taipei was the centre of a new middle class in a rapidly developed economy. How can one even really approach judging Cannibal Holocaust? It exists outside all bounds of normal cinema. It a landmark of cinema and the sort of film that you measure all others by. Showgirls could be described as a high budget exploitation flick. It does not idolise or admire poverty, but accepts such a reality and builds from there. These are very loosely ranked. The Blue Caftan seems initially to be a study of repressed desire, but it gives way to broader themes about death and life. I have a new list, a vote for the best film of 2020, using the same rules as the Academy Awards: boxd. This isn't trying to recreate the original in a totally faithful way, but build its own horror. They are. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Atlantis presents a post-apocalyptic vision of Ukraine's future with just 28 shots. This is typical indie fare that doesn't do anything unexpected. Contrary to popular belief, the War on Drugs has been a colossal success. Fraternity. Cries and Whispers is a film of dominant reds, with white and black serving as secondary colours. Nothing can prepare someone for their first viewing of Oldboy. Everything about Carol astonishes me. Wes Anderson. To fight for what is right is violent and tough. Characters are prejudiced against education. However Athena as a whole does not live up to that beginning. The film straddles multiple genres, with musical and comedy elements attached to a mystery plot that slowly becomes a horror film. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Cow is Andrea Arnold's Cannibal Holocaust . Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: Hooptober X. 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. Suggestions welcome. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd: At the centre of Biutiful Javier Bardem gives an extraordinary and subtle performance. ★★★★★ 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. Darren Carver-Balsiger’s 2023 to date. Please visit the current, updated Top 250 Sci-Fi Films list. Dear Mum, I never said "I love you" enough. It is a film of humour and heart. You're a different person when you're on holiday. Picked by: Cinemaverse Official. Posted by u/borisdandorra - 8 votes and 10 comments Darren Carver-Balsiger commented on his own review of The Holdovers 19h. Ordered by films titled with a full name, then just first names, and then surnames. Final Cut .