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Hossein Amini recommended L'Avventura (1960) in Movies (curated)

 
L'Avventura (1960)
L'Avventura (1960)
1960 | International, Classics, Drama
(0 Ratings)
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"My favorite among Antonioni’s trilogy of alienation (La notte and L’eclisse are the other two). For me, these films capture the slow and painful death of love with astonishing intuition and almost no dialogue. There is nothing to be said between lovers when they fall out of love, but the silent agony of their dying relationships is captured in heartbreaking glances and body language. A shoulder turn or look away speaks volumes. Antonioni is a master of blocking actors. They move up close, far away, and out of shot in long single takes that reveal more about their emotions than any confession."

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Rian Johnson recommended Paper Moon (1973) in Movies (curated)

 
Paper Moon (1973)
Paper Moon (1973)
1973 | Classics, Comedy, Drama
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I’m a film school nerd, so I’ve got about a hundred favorite movies. I’d feel like I was cheating on all of them if I narrowed it down to five movies. But con man movies I can do. In no particular order, I guess the first one I’d name is Paper Moon, which, for me, is just a perfect film. It’s also one of the first con man movies I saw that was less about the mechanics of plot and more about the relationships between the characters, and this father-daughter relationship, which is really beautiful. Just a pretty wonderful movie."

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Tobin Bell recommended The Descent (2005) in Movies (curated)

 
The Descent (2005)
The Descent (2005)
2005 | Horror

"The Descent, which was the film about the women spelunkers who go down into a cave. What I liked about that was the fact that you spent the first half hour of the film developing the characters. You cared about the people. By the time they went into the cave, you were involved. I thought that was very smart, and I loved that a horror film didn’t go right to the scares but made you care about the characters and their relationships with one another. The Descent was very well made, I thought, on a relatively low budget."

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Inhale, Exhale
Inhale, Exhale
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4.0 (1 Ratings)
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This started off quite good, then the love triangle aspect was introduced and I loved Grant, he was a hot geek, while Christian came across as some sort of loser boyfriend who occasionally had a nicer, softer, side.

Then it progressed some in the triangledom of relationships and I got a little giddy... And then it all started to go downhill for me from after the sex.

The storyline just got a little too ridiculous for me, and I started skipping pages, just skimming others...

Therefore I'm afraid it's getting a two star. Not for me at all, sorry.