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This was one of those rare films I wished I'd seen on the Big Screen. Like an Imax.
Werner Herzog does a tour with Vulcanologists to some of the world's active volcanoes, spectacular footage of people looking into the abyss of fire, and in so doing ends up digging up 100, 000 year old Hominid remains in Ethiopia, to North Korea, where the people believe their race was born from Paektu Mountain near China (and a long digression into the cultural heritage), then returns to Vanuatu where the people worship their volcano as a portal to John Frum - the Melanesian Cargo cult that is trying to bring back the American troops and their cheap chewing gum and trinkets...
Like most of Herzog's work it digresses beautifully, and while it would claim to be an investigation into the volcanoes it's also so much more...
Five Stars.
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And this, another old one by Werner Herzog, again filmed in the Amazon basin, this time the story revolving around a would-be rubber Baron hauling his ship up the Amazon and over a mountain...
Starring Klaus Kinski, notoriously difficult to work with "favourite" of Werner Herzog, who had attempted to exclude him from this, only his first and second choices fell out. And so they end up together again, but for more on their relationship watch Herzog's "My Best Fiend"...
Anyways, I gave the briefest description of the plot, of course there is more; Herzog's far too brilliant to keep it simple. Very worthwhile.
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An Iranian film about a man who inadvertently comes across his torturer from when he was held as a political prisoner. Rounding up his fellow prison-mates they find themselves at a loss as to how to proceed...
Interesting, the consequences of trauma and war; and a reckoning that soon will be happening here...
But not particularly enjoyable, merely a different lens on a different culture and history.
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This, the recommendation of a fellow cinephile who works at the liquor store.
I need a bigger realm of acquaintance.
Anyways, he thought it was a big deal. Reviews on it were good, I downloaded, watched, would give it a big "Meh", I'm curious as we'd discussed some great films and then this was his recommendation? I mean, I'm sober when I'm going to the liquor store generally, so - why this, and what about it made it so great? I don't get it.
Still don't. Fine for those of you that like horror, not bad, just not a film I'd recommend. Fine performances by Julia Garner (Ozark) and Josh Brolin.
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This - surprisingly, was a masterpiece. Perfectly suited to the diminished attention span, hundreds, if not thousands of short takes, tight writing, an absurdist comedic genius that taps into the New Theosophy of Quantum Jumping, family dynamics, the multiverse, and concludes when finally the heroine Michelle Yeoh realizes her infinite potential.
Both over the top and sublime. And what with all the NSFW scenes I'm realizing I might have missed out by never contracting the "Asian Fever".
Well worth watching, although be a little sharper than I was, there's a lot going on...