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Following the "solo filmmaker" section, the empty mirror solo has launched a new section "solo film list"!
Every Wednesday, we invite a friend (reader & author) to share our own private film list.
This week is our author pAsslosS~
pASslosS, author of empty mirror solo.
A shadowfinder who is still cultivating.
Watching movies was a very personal experience, and I knew that the list of good movies could not be listed, so I focused on selecting some movies that still vividly remember me.
My understanding of the filmmakers and their works is consistent, so the so-called "picking" here has long since become a kind of retreat, more of an attempt to recall the feeling of first viewing.
In fact, the overview of just a few crosses always feels thin, but I think that if I express these feelings that have been touched for a long time, I will definitely attract more partners to watch it, and thus gain a richer life experience than this list.
PASslosS film list
01
Miracle (2014)
Alice Rohrwacher is an Italian female director I love so much. Especially last year's "Happy Lazaro" gave me a big shock.
But the reason why "Miracle" was chosen is because it has a more private image atmosphere, the lens is poetic and wandering, and the colors are rich and extravagant.
"Miracle" depicts the absurdity and bitterness of the closed traditional beekeeping family in connecting with the novel external world, and I still remember the honey overflowing the marble floor, and the family anxiously picks it up with their hands, as if life can be easily defeated by a small accident.
02
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Kelly Reichardt is another female director I love, and her films always find tension and difficulty in their daily lives.
This 80-minute film tells the story of Wendy, a stray girl, and Lucy, a dog, and we can experience wendy's "journey" through her depravity and misery.
Many people have no choice but to slide slowly in their lives, and in the final scene of the film, Wendy sees her dog adopted by a rich man through the barbed wire, and Lucy is her last thing.
03
Overland Boat (1982)
The film had a profound impact on me, and to this day I still use the term "overland boat" to describe some extremely difficult but fruitless feats, and thus became Herzog's most loyal fan.
After actually becoming a fan, I understood that a film that could cut into the soul must have some kind of anthropological anatomy, such as this "Overland Boat", which has the power to make me lose my voice and tremble.
I was fascinated by every inch of fog and dirt inside, and from then on I firmly believed that the "dream of paranoia" was the "sound of heaven", and I loved this absurd epic, which did not bring results but was full of revelation and fanatical faith.
04
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Andrei Rublev was a great surprise for me. I believe that every fan will have an exclusive "Tarkovsky list", and this one is often placed at the end of the list as an outlier, not only because it is a black-and-white film, but also because it involves prohibitive religious themes.
Initially I opened the film as if I were completing a mission, and it turned out to be out of control because it compensated for my nihilistic worldview as a modern person.
Andrei Rublev is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding epic films in my mind, because it shows the combined efforts of weak and small human beings to reshape human faith.
That's why I love Tarkovsky, who doesn't just describe the plight of human beings, he knows that humans are a dirty and vulnerable species, which is why he thinks that human beings need faith and hope more.
05
The Grandmother (2009)
The so-called "realism" is the standard and tendency repeatedly mentioned in the Chinese film and television industry, although I never think that the standard of good movies is in line with reality, but I want to recommend Mandoza to everyone through this standard.
I am not recommended because of the overly obvious shaking of the camera and handheld photography, for me, the richness of Mandoza's images has long transcended the boundaries of reality, just like the overflowing truth in this "Grandmother".
People's state and experience unpretentiously shock your gaze, it has the indiscernible complexity of reality, the "realism" I admire is that the audience cannot find the opportunity to pity and worship, it is a self-aligned unity, and Mandoza is undoubtedly one of the absolute benchmarks in my heart.
06
The Affected Woman (1974)
Regarding American independent films, I've always had the habit of watching Jarmusch in a comfortable way, but hugging John Casavetti in a crazy way.
That kind of mood is probably that every film is reluctant to watch, every one wants to be re-watched on the big screen, and each one has to often pull back a close-up shot or lie safely in the dialogue of the guns and bullets.
From the very beginning, "The Affected Woman" challenges our subjective judgment that the family is normal, society is normal, men also have responsibilities and responsibilities, and only women are abnormal and neurosensitive.
But it only takes more than two hours of companionship to understand the cause of this tragedy, when a imprisoned woman can't find the ropes that bind her, she has only two choices, either endure everything or exile herself.
The little girl with the broken arm and the actor who wants to give up his life because of the broken leg save each other in a beautiful story. The power of love has built that beautiful fantasy world, where people have found the strength to live.
07
Harlan County, USA (1976)
When anger is trampled and ignored, people sing sad folk songs, which always hide anger and take the extinguished words in a certain direction.
The Harlan County Mine is both a graveyard under the butcher's knife of capital and the final battlefield for the soul. I have always felt that the political concept of happiness is narrow, and Barbara Kapo's documentary points to the dirtiness and oppression of human nature.
We can see the ruthlessness and greed of the power of capital, as well as the noise and vacillation of the working class.
08
Bad Blood (1986)
Leo Caracus was one of my favorite French directors after the New Wave, and Denis Rawan became my favorite French actor.
In Bad Blood, the montage is magical, with young faces, swinging passion and sadness, which not only brings a unique poetic description but also reaches the ultimate visual climax.
09
Happy Hour (2015)
Happy Hour, a 317-minute film, is not easy to stick to, in addition to the unpretentious shooting style, but also relying on a lot of tedious dialogue to build up the relationship between the characters.
But if you can stick to the first hour, you will have a new look at the whole movie, especially the wonderful reading session, the words and the behavior of the characters and the current situation of life is very clever.
The four women have their own sorrows in their lives, and their sensitivity and fragility are difficult to become each other's eternal solid arms.
But this connection between people is real because it's complex enough, like Marianne and John in Bergman's Married Life, that the beginning and end of a marriage will never be a judgment on a relationship.
10
Simon in the Desert (1965)
This is Buñuel's last film in Mexico, and the film is not only interesting enough, but also has enough reflexive symbols to make people think.
In this film, martyrs and demons form a new way of connecting, and people can't help but reflect that in addition to the struggle between good and evil within religion, religion itself faces the challenge of modernity.
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