cineurbe

Life happens in the dark at 24 frames per second with Lonely people looking up.

Favorite films

  • The Tigress
  • Hit the Road
  • Trenque Lauquen
  • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

All
  • Friday the 13th

  • How to Train Your Dragon

  • DAN DA DAN: Evil Eye

  • Desperate Living

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Desperate Living

1977

Watched

Waters' staple of social subversion it's on full effect, as classic americana upside-down, turns suburban meltdown, with whacko doses of raunch-trash extremities, as royalty class-warfare and queer-distorting celebrations, go head to head, all of it hanging off the cinematic hinges, from one set-up to the next.
Practically becoming untameable narrative-wise, and asthetically it's a revolution of transgression, in the process.
Just be cautious of Grizelda Brown (Jean Hill) perhaps tripping over on "backwards day" and then deliberately sitting on your face for the kill.
Indeed, the world would never the same after this.

Little Buddha

1993

Watched

In a space time of just a few hours (prolly enough for a good Zazen session at the Zen center) I hopped from the Big Roxie to The Little, treating myself to some of the most interesting, yet still baffling stunts of Hollywood adventurous ethnic casting, that i can .
First Charlton Heston in brown face - embracing Janet Leigh with visible white hands, as Mexican, Agente Federal Ramón Miguel Vargas, in Welles' now almost post-modern filtered classic "Touch of…

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What Is Neorealism?

2013

Liked Watched

I can watch Kogonada's videoessays all day, but im gonna take this one with me when i die.

The Phoenician Scheme

2025

Rewatched

Does tyranny persist where God is absent?
Where fortunes are achieved from unholy mischief, while keeping the wheels of commerce turning?
Roman Coppola and Wes Anderson's scenarios may not feel or come off as tired as their now over-elaborate production design, but as the narrative set-up may find itself in somewhat of a dead-end riddle by the final hour, while still on board with itself, according to that dialogue that adorns the dry-as-sandpaper humor, that seems to always be driving…