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Werckmeister harmóniák (2000)
There's disappointment in everything
The movie begins in a pub, with a few drunken men reenacting the moon revolving around the earth and the earth revolving around the sun. A man named Janos, walking around the town, learns that a whale is coming to town, so he goes to the town square to see it. He is mesmerized by what he sees. He admires the creativity of God in creating this enormous whale. But ominous events follow the arrival of this animal in the town. As Janos observes the crowd gathered around the fire in the town square, he asks to see the whale again. He blames the whale for the troubles that have befallen them. A man called the Prince, who is never seen in the movie (only his shadow is visible), has influenced the townspeople. The townspeople revolt at the Prince's instigation. First they go to a hospital, where they ransack it and beat up the patients. When they see an old and weak patient, almost dying, they retreat. The helplessness of this old, frail and naked man was enough to stop the rebels. Janos is also in a corner of the hospital. He is horrified by what he sees. Soldiers arrive in the shattered, ruined town. While Janos is in the mental hospital, György visits him and talks about what he will do after he gets out. The film ends with György finally seeing the whale. One of the best examples of Béla Tarr's cinema, perhaps the best.
Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
You can't win a game against death
Antony, who thought that human reason and knowledge were sufficient to comprehend God, encounters Death when he returns home from his crusade. He is not ready to die yet and begins to play chess with him in order to delay his death. As the chess game continues, Antony's death will be delayed. On the other side, there is a cast of 3 players and a baby. Antony loses the chess game with Death. Death tells him that the next time they meet, Antony and his companions will expire. If it wasn't a movie that tries to ask deep questions and seeks answers to these questions, and if it was more comedic, it might be a movie I would want to watch again. But as it is, I don't think I would want to watch it again. The questions asked and the answers sought throughout the movie were far from deep. Such questions and answers belong in books, not in a movie. And a 96-minute movie is far too short to discuss them.
6.5/10.
Blow-Up (1966)
Tennis match without racket and ball
A fashion photographer takes pictures of a couple walking in a park. When the woman of the couple realizes that they are being photographed, she asks the photographer for the photographs. At first the photographer refuses to give them to her. Then the woman comes to his house and offers to have intercourse with the photographer in exchange for the photographs. The photographer gives her the photos other than the ones she wants. The woman leaves the house thinking that she has taken her own photographs. The photographer examines the photographs he has taken and discovers that the male of the couple in the park has been murdered. He goes to the park and the man's body is still there. When the photographer goes to tell his friend about it, his friend is having sex with a woman. He returns home and finds that his house has been trashed. He goes outside and finds himself in the middle of a concert. He struggles to pick up the smashed guitar. He takes the smashed part of the guitar and manages to escape from the others. Then he throws it away like a piece of trash. He goes to his friend Ron and tells him that there is a dead body in the park. Ron is under the influence of drugs and doesn't understand anything. Ron invites the photographer to this drug party and he spends the night there. In the morning he goes back to the park but the body has disappeared. The movie ends with a tennis match with no racket and no ball. There is nothing I can criticize in this movie and I think it is Antonioni's best film.
7.5/10.
Nashville (1975)
A masterful Robert Altman work
There are so many intersecting stories in this movie. A separate movie could be made for each of these stories. To fit them all into a single movie requires a master. Robert Altman shows this mastery. To some, these disparate stories may seem difficult to follow. However, when you look at the whole picture and not at the details, this movie ranks among the masterpieces of cinema history. Some may think I am exaggerating. But even after all these years, what the movie has to offer is still very relevant. I don't have much to criticize the movie. It's just that there are too many songs and they are too long. This made the movie longer than it should have been. Some people may like the number of songs and the length of the songs. But, in my opinion, I think it disrupted the rhythm of the movie. Nevertheless, I would say it's Robert Altman's best movie.
7.5/10.
Chinatown (1974)
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
A woman suspects her husband of cheating on her and hires a detective to find out. While the detective is on the case, he suddenly finds himself in a complicated relationship. In fact, the woman who hires the detective because her husband is cheating on her is someone else. Her husband opposes the construction of a new dam. This makes him a target for some people. In the end, this engineer is killed. His mistress, with whom he was photographed, disappears with him. The detective begins to try to get to the bottom of this case. At the same time, he tries to save his own reputation. John Huston is Faye Dunaway's father. However, he also raped her and had a child with her. This child is also the engineer's lover. The engineer is killed by John Huston. Faye Dunaway also dies at the end of the movie. Despite Faye Dunaway's clumsy acting and the unnecessary use of music, I think it is a Polanski movie that should be watched.
Topio stin omihli (1988)
In the beginning, there was only darkness. Then light appeared.
Two children who set out to find their father, whom they think is in Germany, first board a train to Germany. After being handed over to the police for not having a ticket, the two children are taken to their uncle, who informs them that they are in fact the product of an illegitimate relationship and that they do not have a father in Germany. Taken to the police station, the children manage to escape from the police while they are outside watching the snow. Time has stopped, no one is moving except the children. As they continue their escape, they are confronted by the troupe of actors from the director's 1975 film "O thiasos". We suddenly find ourselves in the lines from that movie. The troupe is still traveling. One of the children, a girl, is raped by a driver who picks her up. When they use a boat on the river to cross the border, they are shot at and a tree emerges out of the haze. In the end, it is this tree that they find, not their father. Despite its flaws, this movie can be considered one of Angelopoulos' masterpieces.
7.5/10.
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
You can't hide your genius until the end
Seaman Michael O'Hara is attracted to a woman named Elsa Bannister. Suddenly, this simple man finds himself involved in a chain of murders that he can hardly comprehend. Elsa Bannister, the wife of Arthur Bannister, becomes intimately involved with Michael O'Hara. Her partner George Grisby also likes Elsa. George Grisby and Elsa plot to kill Arthur Bannister. George Grisby also offers Michael O'Hara 5 thousand dollars to fake his death. The weak points of the movie are the prolonged romantic relationship between Elsa and Michael and the music playing in the background. Towards the end of the movie, Orson Welles' genius shines through and makes you forget all these weaknesses.
7.5/10.
O thiasos (1975)
Angelopoulos' first masterpiece
The movie shows what happens to a troupe of actors over the years. Trapped between various political currents, this troupe is actually made up of actors just trying to survive. Using this group of travelers, the director tries to tell the story of Greece at the time, usually from a leftist perspective. The events unfolding against a very complex political backdrop reflect both historical and personal drama, with our cast chasing a chicken out of hunger, a woman giving herself up to a man, US and communist flags together, and a political environment that sometimes changes in a single scene. Some scenes are longer than they should be. Perhaps this is characteristic of the director's cinema. Sometimes you feel that the movie is too political. But I would still say it is one of the director's masterpieces.
7.5/10.
North by Northwest (1959)
A love story in complexity
The story of an advertising executive who is mistakenly followed and ends up married. One day, a clueless man named Thornhill is mistaken for George Kaplan and entangled in a network he knows nothing about. While he meets and develops feelings for Eve Kendall, a beautiful young woman, he soon learns that she is a spy. One of the weaknesses of the movie is that this relationship is over-emphasized, perhaps in keeping with the fashion of the time. It would have been a better movie if the train Thornhill and Kendall were on had not gone into the tunnel. Still, I can say that this is perhaps Hitchcock's best movie.
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
A spoiled child and a failed serenade attempt
A story centered on a couple who can't get together despite loving each other. The biggest reason they can't get together is a spoiled child. In a sense, the whole family is paying the price for spoiling this child. At first this brat says he will do nothing, but later he agrees to work even in the most dangerous jobs. The fact that his feet are broken at the end of the movie is heartwarming. The second satisfying thing is that the girl treats this pampered boy as soulless and cold. Orson Welles certainly has better films, but this is one of his must-see movies. It's not technically Citizen Kane or Touch of Evil, but the content is satisfying.
Repulsion (1965)
I wish she had seen a doctor
There's a virgin and two dead bodies. Suddenly loud, frightening music, phone calls and knocks on the door. It is obvious that he had to use it to increase the effect of tension, which is not much. I would say Polanski has better movies. The sister's moaning every time she makes love is also unrealistic. It serves nothing but to annoy the leading girl. Although there are a few noteworthy scenes, I don't think I would want to watch it again. Nevertheless, I give this movie 6.5 out of 10 with the credit it has earned from Polanski's other films. If we compare it to "Rosemary's Baby", I think this movie is weaker than that.