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Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".
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I saw an interview where Quentin Tarantino praises the 1980 Hitchcockian Brian De Palma film Dressed to Kill. And now after actually watching it myself, I can totally understand why.
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Being almost a parody of Hitchcock, Dressed to Kill is a directing masterpiece. The way the camera is used in this film is so fucking good I was literally yelling at the screen while watching "this is so fucking good".
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Obviously since it is not a Hitchcock movie and since it wasn't done during the code, and instead was done when R-rating was a thing, the movie can dare to show way more sex and way more violence. We get a pussy closeup in the opening sequence. And yet de Palma doesn't go too raw on any of the sex or violence. He approaches all of it with an insane cinematic flourish. So many good shots. So many good edits. So much good film-making.
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The film has actors, but it is not about the actors. It is all about the god-damned director. The whole film is one big directing muscle flex for de Palma. Like yeah, the story is kind of good. But it's not designed to be just told. It's designed to be cinematically presented. It would not make for much just talking about the story. Without the directing, the story is kind of pointless.
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I really liked this movie and will definitely re-watch it later. Many times.
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Happy Hacking!!!
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The somber tale of Summer of '42
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Sex and love are hard to miss on present block-busters. Even topics such as love between a child and an adult are discussed. In early 1970s and before it was hard to find films delving into such topics. A nostalgia film of that. The movie may start out light-hearted, it went deep so to make the illustrious Kubrick cry.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 or the pioneer in ultraviolence
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If today we have a lot of films to choose from when we want to shock ourselves beyond believe: from barely serious, yet distrusting films by Eli Roth through intense hyper-violence by Coralie Fargeat or depressing looks at the world by Lars Von Trier all the way to deranged films like The Serbian Film, in 1970s you had probably only one true contender for such a level of derangeness. And it was the Tobe Hooper's 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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Dressed To Kill 1980 is a cinematic treat
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I saw an interview where Quentin Tarantino praises the 1980 Hitchcockian Bryan de Palma film Dressed to Kill. And now after actually watching it myself, I can totally understand why.
#dressedtokill #bryandepalma #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
My Neighbor Adolf 2022 expresses the longing for peace
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My Neighbor Adolf is an Israeli, English language film about an old Jew living in Argentina, who got a new neighbor, who has a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler. And it is about the paranoid obsession of this man with his neighbor.
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After The Hunt 2025 is an exploitation film about the #MeToo
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In my article about Corruption of the audience I observed the talent of Luca Guadagnino in this regard. I was mostly talking about his film Bones and All where he managed to humanize cannibalism. But I think with his 2025 picture After the Hunt he is finally attempting the hardest challenge yet.
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Predator 1987 was always a B-movie
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As I observed in my review of Predator 2, the Predator films feel very B-movie-like. And the first film, John McTiernan's 1987 Predator is not an exception.
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017 is Yorgos Lanthimos's attempt to show Lars Von Trier how to properly corrupt the audience
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I was afraid of 2017 absurdist horror film by Yorgos Lanthimos The Killing of a Sacred Deer, because I know it involves a murder of a child. Ever since Lars Von Trier utterly traumatized me with his depiction of this very thing in The House That Jack Built I avoid movies like this. But seeing Bugonia the other day, where I attempted to psycho-sexually analyse Lanthimos, I realized that I avoided a movie that potentially has a lot of what I need for such an analysis. So I braved myself and saw the damn film. Now I think the film was about corrupting the audience enough that they would feel good about a child being murdered. I'm not joking. That is how the movie is structured.
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Godzilla (1954) is a choir of destruction and loss
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What can be said about Godzilla? It is an icon to name icons. Looking at IMDb, it is unfortunate, although expected, to find 2014 release of Godzilla has 10 times as much ratings as the original 1954 version. Even though some scenes do look pretty goofy, a lot of love was undoubtedly put into it. That love is not always felt when viewing with modern sensibilities. I attempt to remedy the poignant feeling by calculated and logical reasoning and arguments... or more so my own acuity of the work.
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Foxtrot 2017 is a weird surrealistic tale
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Watching Foxtrot ( a film by Samuel Maoz ) I felt a strange feeling. The film moves and feels like surrealistic horror movies by directors like Nicolas Winding Refn and Panos Cosmatos, yet the film is not a horror. It is a drama.
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The Eight Wonder of Cinema is King Kong 1933
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The 1933 film itself is not too special. For its time, there's a lot to laud. Comparing what Peter Jackson would do later, there's night and day. I do not mean the special effects, which are exceptional.
#KingKong #MerianCCooper #FayWray #RobertArmstrong #BruceCabot #MaxSteiner #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
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