Emilio

Emilio

Favorite films

  • A Lake
  • Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre
  • Mother and Son
  • What Time Is It There?

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  • Everything Everywhere Again Alive

  • Obsession

    ½

  • Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

    ★★★

  • To Be or Not to Be

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Memoria
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Genuinely transformative. I have a deeply personal connection to its tactile and universal nature, the creation of a corporeal archive, the body as conduit for collective remembrance. A passerby inexorably intertwined with an unknowable past, like passing your hand through the chest of a ghost. 

Descriptors that might sound sterile and cold but in reality there is an undeniable warmth in its unity of human, soul, and history. 

Apichatpong Weerasethagoat

Dangerous Game
★★★★★ Liked Watched

This and The Blackout are both criminally under rated/appreciated from Ferrara’s incredible run in the 90s.  

Dangerous Game is particularly dense in its metatextual exploration of self destruction and exploitation within Hollywood structures. Ferrara is critiquing and questioning every single step of the process it takes to make a movie by practically inserting himself on screen à la Eddie Israel. And as extensively he touches upon these throughlines of narcissism, consumerism, and guilt, the camera stays intimately close, capturing a…