
Mike David
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I post about movies. I have great taste, I promise! Letterboxd: https://t.co/NfqqpLe5yc 🏀🍀 / ⚽🇪🇸
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"THE SWIMMER [1968] is a surreal, unsettling, and highly stylized masterpiece, featuring an unforgettable performance by Burt Lancaster, and directed by Frank Perry. It is based on the 1964 short story of the same title by author John Cheever. It follows a man’s delusional journey across suburban pools, which serves as a profound allegory for the decline of the American Dream, personal failure, and the loss of youth. A "suburban odyssey" that blends a dreamy, sunny aesthetic with dark, psychological undercurrents, it acts as a blistering satire of upper-middle class affluence, vanity and denial. The film is known for its dream-like, sometimes disjointed narrative, with some viewers seeing it as an interpretation of the descent into Hell."
Mike David388,468 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
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IN A VIOLENT NATURE [2024] has made its way into my top ten. It manages to use several tropes without abusing any of them. There's no music. The scariest thing about the killer is how slow and deliberate he is, yet capable. Unflinching violence, not for the squeamish.
Mike David27,182 görüntüleme • 12 gün önce

EASTERN PROMISES [2007] Directed by David Cronenberg Mortensen and Watts are spectacular together in this film. What I love most about the film is how Cronenberg lets us make our own assumptions about Mortensen's character, and then shows how wrong we were to assume.
Mike David65,733 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

CROSS OF IRON [1977] Directed by Sam Peckinpah This is a very underseen WW2 film. Set on the Russian Front in 1943, it's a gritty and realistic affair. James Coburn is excellent, as are James Mason and Maximilian Schell. Peckinpah got his hands on real T-34 tanks, too!
Mike David53,793 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

The chronological JAWS clips continue. We're well on our way.
Mike David81,461 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

Stanley Kubrick uses his mastery of visual language so effectively in THE SHINING [1980]. Bless Shelley Duvall for having to walk backwards for four consecutive minutes while being berated by Jack Nicholson. I've left this whole scene intact so you can enjoy the tension buildup!
Mike David17,904 görüntüleme • 21 gün önce