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Film Noir - Cinema From The Shadows
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Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine - Existentialism & The Yakuza
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Tsai Ming-Liang's Days - Isolation on Film
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Sergio Leone - Redefining the Western
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Beau Travail - Deconstructing Masculinity
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The Art of Neorealism - Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy
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The Moral Cinema of Eric Rohmer
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The Existential Cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni
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The Power of Cinematic Realism - Come and See
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Nosferatu - The Birth of Horror
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Tenet - Challenging Blockbuster Formula
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The Poetics of Andrei Tarkovsky - Andrei Rublev
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The Beauty of Terrence Malick - A Hidden Life
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Harakiri - Defying Samurai Authority
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The Leopard - Visconti and Mortality
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The Human Condition - Kobayashi and Humanity
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The Human Condition - Kobayashi and Humanity
Total Recall - Real or Dream?
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Total Recall - Real or Dream?
La Jetee - The Philosophy of Time Travel
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La Jetee - The Philosophy of Time Travel
Lars Von Trier - Depression on Film
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Lars Von Trier - Depression on Film
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - The Birth of German Expressionism
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - The Birth of German Expressionism
Akira Kurosawa - The Colour of Ran
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Akira Kurosawa - The Colour of Ran
Tokyo Story & The Humanistic Philosophy
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Tokyo Story & The Humanistic Philosophy

Komentáře

  • @Dcds_07
    @Dcds_07 Před dnem

    What is the song in the background?

  • @randolphpinkle4482

    I've always thought of Rohmer's protagonists as sleazy opportunists trying to rationalize their sexual desires with intellectual argument.

  • @danieljimenez8524
    @danieljimenez8524 Před 11 dny

    Boring movie, boring video

  • @elitebum4184
    @elitebum4184 Před 18 dny

    I’m gonna watch this movie backwards and see happens

  • @MoreMovies4u
    @MoreMovies4u Před 21 dnem

    Excellent film, excellent essay. 👍🎬

  • @nh8324
    @nh8324 Před 21 dnem

    But does her knee recover

  • @Meortn
    @Meortn Před 21 dnem

    Very beautiful. I have watched many classical japanese movies, but I have honestly never heard about this masterful trilogy. That's ashame. I really wants to watch it one day

  • @francescahamilton6856
    @francescahamilton6856 Před 21 dnem

    Magnificent ❤❤

  • @oxymoron9097
    @oxymoron9097 Před 23 dny

    People pull the trigger without hesitation and die indifferently. Even if we cling to life like waves, death is always there, like a calm sea. Rather than a sense of despair leading up to annihilation, there is a clear beauty that cannot be expressed through dialogue alone. Personally, I think it's a masterpiece among Kitano's films, and I want you to see it before you die.

  • @user-po3bc4ty2r
    @user-po3bc4ty2r Před 25 dny

    💃💃💃💃💃💃💃🧑❤️💯🎉💌♥️💋🙋🧖🛀🛌🌠🌌🌈🏖️🧑‍🦰🧑🧑‍🦱🧒🧑‍🌾🧑‍💼🪂🚣🧚

  • @user-po3bc4ty2r
    @user-po3bc4ty2r Před 25 dny

    😂

  • @jingalls9142
    @jingalls9142 Před 26 dny

    If you like Takeshis work. Try out In Bruges, Sexy Beast or City of Industry. All 3 of those films are oddly contemplative gangster films.

  • @user-yourselves47
    @user-yourselves47 Před 27 dny

    it is always the underrated channel with low subscribers that produce a great quality content

  • @michaelandrew4812
    @michaelandrew4812 Před měsícem

    Thank you for this amazing analysis/essay

  • @Steelflight773
    @Steelflight773 Před měsícem

    I thought when I was younger the events in the movie were not a dream and actually happened. I now think it may have been a dream. Everything that happens to Quaid to make him believe it is real was intentional. He must be convinced it is not a dream to enjoy the experience. Maybe the reason why Recall had problems is because people had a hard time with reality afterwards. It was too real to them. I could be wrong though.

  • @uttaradit2
    @uttaradit2 Před měsícem

    switch 2 chrome advert just as I was getting synched into the meaning of the madness of life

  • @TruDis01
    @TruDis01 Před měsícem

    Mars

  • @JohnnyFBlaze-ek1rr
    @JohnnyFBlaze-ek1rr Před měsícem

    They did not implant the dream it's real watch it agaib before he leaves recall

  • @darrylwiggins4799
    @darrylwiggins4799 Před měsícem

    I judge a foreign films worth by how emotional and thought provoking it makes me feel.This,thankfully,does both.

  • @cliffpinchon2832
    @cliffpinchon2832 Před měsícem

    please make cc available to block out the distracting music.

  • @actualityfilms
    @actualityfilms Před měsícem

    This guy is like a cliche-machine of Antonioni analysis.

  • @samgriffin6221
    @samgriffin6221 Před měsícem

    Started watching it again last night. It’s so obvious it’s all real

  • @charlesheck6812
    @charlesheck6812 Před 2 měsíci

    I watched La Notte last evening…10/10. I appreciate movies that respect the intelligence of its viewers.

  • @Thedesertguy75
    @Thedesertguy75 Před 2 měsíci

    It really is such an icon, the godfather of horror or at least scary films

  • @rivelle3986
    @rivelle3986 Před 2 měsíci

    Are you connected with The Cinematheque at GOMA in Brisbane?

  • @danielwilliamson6180
    @danielwilliamson6180 Před 2 měsíci

    That is the genius of Total Recall. It is about the nature of reality and it draws the line between fantasy and reality and it keeps you guessing and at the end of the movie, it is left to us the audience if it is real or fantasy.

  • @jamesconroy7030
    @jamesconroy7030 Před 2 měsíci

    It's the same issue with all stories that turn out to be just a dream. How does a dream have scenes the dreamer isn't in?

  • @kasugasawa839
    @kasugasawa839 Před 2 měsíci

    Forrest Gump is a better war movie than this

  • @user-jz7pk2mx7u
    @user-jz7pk2mx7u Před 2 měsíci

    англосаксам тяжело понять

  • @ptjcinema
    @ptjcinema Před 2 měsíci

    👍🏾😍

  • @713davidh42
    @713davidh42 Před 2 měsíci

    Fine synopsis of my all-time favorite movie.

  • @patekswiss9521
    @patekswiss9521 Před 3 měsíci

    No doubt a great cinematic achiecvement. Leaving apart the substance, the film has great music, cinematography, acting and editing. For all that, it has a tragic flaw in the narrative in its embrace of socialism. The film presents this idea of socialism as the solution to the human condition and, despite Kaji’s disappointment with how it’s implemented by the Soviets, Kobayashi never questions the underlying premise that there’s something called “socialism” - in opposition to Japanese fascism - that will allow men to flourish. Today we know that is nonsense - socialism itself is fatally flawed. The film, though still very much worht seeing, then becomes something of its time rather than timeless. Its mistake about socialism may even deepen the resonance of the film’s main narrative drive in the final part - the solution to the human condition is as elusive and illusory as Kaji’s chances of reuniting with Michiko.

  • @GaionSputro
    @GaionSputro Před 3 měsíci

    The original _"mugen tsukuyomi"_

  • @reggieherod8678
    @reggieherod8678 Před 3 měsíci

    When their trying to put him in the simulation they tell you that they haven't even put him in yet and that someone has been messing with Quiads head so it wasn't a dream.

  • @djporkchops69
    @djporkchops69 Před 3 měsíci

    Best video review I've seen. Appears effortless. I'm a big fan of the book and film.

  • @BrianHartman
    @BrianHartman Před 3 měsíci

    You came to the same conclusion I did: The third person perspectives we see, where Quaid isn't even one of the characters on screen, prove that it's not a dream.

  • @jackbryan4676
    @jackbryan4676 Před 4 měsíci

    The key is Melina...she appears on the screen at Rekall right before Quaid passes out. The implication is that Melina isn't real, she's a creation of Rekall for Quaid's ego trip.

  • @tiptop3922
    @tiptop3922 Před 4 měsíci

    Pity, but I am sure, all this was just a dream.

  • @jeffsmith1798
    @jeffsmith1798 Před 4 měsíci

    Excellent exposition of noir. What do you think about the relationship (dependency?) between film noir and the novel?

  • @summeri3
    @summeri3 Před 4 měsíci

    how is the quality of the movie so crisp here lmao

  • @colonelfrogs
    @colonelfrogs Před 4 měsíci

    "blue skies on mars? Never seen that one before." -scientist at recall. Anyone else notice that and how the movie ended with mars getting blue skys

  • @augustobraidotti6992
    @augustobraidotti6992 Před 4 měsíci

    Luchino, pronounce. ' Lookeeno', a hard c not a soft one. Just saying.

  • @jonaspedersen5990
    @jonaspedersen5990 Před 5 měsíci

    Personally I am so fed up with westerners' obsession with deconstruncting almost everything. This film is good and void of the gay propaganda ,that we have grown so used to. A gem of a movie.

  • @davidagiel8130
    @davidagiel8130 Před 5 měsíci

    The movie purposely has textual evidence for and against it being a dream/implanted memory, there are a few red herrings, and it’s left ambiguous on purpose, that’s what makes it great. If you want to believe it’s real, then he is Houser when he screams “you blew my cover” not Quaid at that moment, he had total recall of who he was, then they knocked him out and wiped his memories again returning him to Quaid

  • @danielbarrero2815
    @danielbarrero2815 Před 5 měsíci

    Great video!

  • @titteryenot4524
    @titteryenot4524 Před 5 měsíci

    Back in 1982, one Sunday evening I caught an intriguing-looking movie on tv. It was on BBC2 (back in the day when British terrestrial telly quite regularly showed arthouse films). I was 11. The picture was _Pauline à la plage._ I was hooked, there and then. 30 years later, Rohmer is still my all-time favourite director. I calculated the other day that I have seen all of his films at least 50 times for each one. Some _(Conte d'été,_ _Le Beau mariage,_ _La femme de l'aviateur)_ I must’ve watched about 100 times. My all-time favourite, _Le rayon vert,_ probably about 150 times. All told, I calculated I have spent about 5,000 hours of my life immersed in Rohmer’s world, and not a minute of those hours was wasted; even on the 33rd viewing of whichever film it might be, for with Rohmer, he is inexhaustible! What you watched at 21, you watch again at 35, or 50, or 70, but because you are changed, more layers will be waiting to be uncovered that weren’t apparent on previous viewings. Meaning is constantly waiting to be uncovered in Rohmer. It’s never exhausted. Anyway, for those who are still interested, here is my personal ranking of Rohmer’s oeuvre. The choice here is mainly based on sheer enjoyment/personal meaning and not necessarily on any given film’s technical achievement. Those who tell you, like Harry Moseby in _Night Moves,_ that watching a Rohmer movie is like ‘watching paint dry’ are lying. I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy, and Rohmer’s vintage is very productive indeed. 1. _Le rayon vert_ (1986) 2. _Conte d'été_ (1996) 3. _La femme de l'aviateur_ (1981) 4. _Le beau mariage_ (1982) 5. _Pauline à la plage_ (1982) 6. _L'amour l'après-midi_ (1972) 7. _Conte d'automne_ (1996) 8. _Les nuits de la pleine lune_ (1984) 9. _Conte d'hiver_ (1992) 10. _Le genou de Claire_ (1970) 11. _La collectionneuse_ (1967) 12. _L'ami de mon amie_ (1987) 13. _Ma nuit chez Maud_ (1969) 14. _Le signe du lion_ (1962) 15. _Conte de printemps_ (1990) 16. _Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle_ (1987) 17. _L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque_ (1993) 18. _Les rendez-vous de Paris_ (1995) 19. _La carrière de Suzanne_ (1963) 20. _La boulangère de Monceau_ (1963) 21. _Triple agent_ (2004) 22. _Die Marquise von O_ (1976) 23. _Perceval le Gallois_ (1978) 24. _L'Anglaise et le duc_ (2001) 25. _Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon_ (2007)

    • @DickeFix
      @DickeFix Před 4 měsíci

      I couldn´t agree more. These films of Eric Rohmer are reflections of the complexity of friendship, love, and human nature. We are individuals with our own dreams and desires, yet at the same time, we are social beings bound by moral principles and the expectations of others. Moreover, our differences often lead to misunderstandings and conflicts even when our intentions are morally impeccable. After watching a film by Eric Rohmer, you are left with the satisfying feeling of not only having been entertained but also having learned something about life and gained a bit of wisdom. I fell in love with these films as a teenager when I saw "La femme de l'aviateur" in the early 1980's. They evoke an emotional resonance within me similar to when I listen to Chopins music, study Renoirs paintings or read Milan Kunderas books. It is difficult to rank them but in general I can say that your favourites are also mine. These cinematic gems deserve attention so that a new generation discovers them. Hence, a big THANK YOU to The Cinematheque for this video essay!

    • @sharkeyflor
      @sharkeyflor Před měsícem

      @@DickeFix just watched my first film from rohmer a couple days ago - a summer's tale. already an all time favorite. the themes you mentioned definitely show up in that film, and i look forward to seeing how they play out in rohmer's other films. this is a small, great write up that has me even more excited to see the rest of his filmography.

  • @louiswilliams2084
    @louiswilliams2084 Před 5 měsíci

    Dream. During the red pill scene, Edgemar accurately reveals the rest of the program. I'm always amazed Quaid doesn't think back and go-huh?!! This is EXACTLY the way Edgemar said it would end!! ( Brain death ensues)

  • @ilgiusto6885
    @ilgiusto6885 Před 5 měsíci

    Today my daughter told me she is pregnant....And I will be a grandfather.... Ozu stories!