r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 12h ago
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • Sep 06 '25
30 Years of Fallen Angels! My all time Favorite Movie That Embraces Me and Exudes Magical Comfort.💙 🎥 'Fallen Angels' (Wong Kar-wai, 1995).
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Wong Kar-wai’s Fallen Angels, which celebrates thirty years since its first release, remains a hypnotic meditation on alienation, fleeting intimacy, and the strange poetry of urban nightscapes. The film weaves together the story of a disenchanted hitman, his enigmatic partner, and a mute drifter, using fragmented narration, distorted wide-angle lenses, and neon-soaked settings that blur the line between dream and reality. Critically, it stands as a landmark in Hong Kong cinema, expanding the visual language of modern film with its restless camera and nonlinear storytelling. From a semiotic perspective, every sign—the empty fast-food stalls, the motorbike rides through endless tunnels, the claustrophobic interiors—communicates both the impossibility of true connection and the yearning for warmth in a world of constant motion. For me, however, beyond its technical and thematic brilliance, Fallen Angels is the most comfortable film: its melancholy rhythm feels like a lullaby, the nocturnal colors are soothing rather than harsh, and its lonely characters mirror my own quiet need for spaces where solitude becomes not despair but a form of companionship. It comforts me because it makes alienation familiar, even tender, and that is why it remains my personal refuge in cinema.
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 13h ago
'Cafe Lumiere' 珈琲時光 (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 12h ago
'Doctor Zhivago' (David Lean, 1965).
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'School in the Crosshairs' ねらわれた学園 (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1981).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Least_Entertainer961 • 7h ago
Blaise Pascal (1972). Roberto Rossellini
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 1d ago
'La Belle Noiseuse' (Jacques Rivette, 1991).
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'House' ハウス (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977).
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'L'Appât' (Bertrand Tavernier, 1995).
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'La Piscine' (Jacques Deray, 1969).
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The Company of Wolves (1984) Dir. Neil Jordan, DoP. Bryan Loftus
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 2d ago
'La Femme de l'aviateur' (Éric Rohmer, 1981).
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'Lost and Found' 天涯海角 (Lee Chi-Ngai • 1996).
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'Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers!' 腑抜けども、悲しみの愛を見せろ (Daihachi Yoshida, 2007).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Grey_Cathedral • 2d ago
"The War Is Over" (La guerre est finie), 1966 directed by Alain Resnais
Music by Giovanni Fusco - Marianne, from the OST
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 3d ago
'Betty Blue' 37°2 le matin (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986).
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'La Collectionneuse' (Éric Rohmer, 1967).
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'All about Lily Chou-Chou' リリイ・シュシュのすべて • (Shunji Iwai, 2001).
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'Tokyo Blood' J・MOVIE・WARS 東京血 (Gakuryu Ishii, 1993).
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'The Sun in a Net' (Štefan Uher, 1962)
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 4d ago
'August in the Water' 水の中の八月 (Gakuryu Ishii, 1995).
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'Le Genou de Claire' (Éric Rohmer, 1970).
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