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Shoplifters: tears to our eyes
Shoplifters don’t reveal, in the English title, who these criminals are. In the original title in Japanese, it is explicit that the...

JORGE MARIN
Mar 9, 20192 min read
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Blue Velvet is a strange movie
Hard to find in the constellation of David Lynch films a work so crudely and at the same time with some coherence unusual to the...

JORGE MARIN
Mar 2, 20192 min read
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Capernaum: disposable legion of heroes
Inhabitants of a capitalist universe, it is natural that, when we go to the movies, we marvel at the wonders that reveal where the...

JORGE MARIN
Feb 23, 20192 min read
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The Atalante is pure poetry
The Atalante tells a simple story, however, as in works of art, it is the way of telling that puts the movie as a poetic experience. Shot...

JORGE MARIN
Feb 15, 20192 min read
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Burning is blow up of anguish
There is no way to analyze Burning without making some kind of reference to Blow-Up, the revolutionary movie by Michelangelo Antonioni....

JORGE MARIN
Feb 8, 20192 min read
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Cold War: unexplained intensity
Cold War is an amazing movie in all aspects. Starting with the 4:3 screen format, almost square, in contrast to the modern trend of...

JORGE MARIN
Feb 1, 20192 min read
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Blow-up: magnified pretension?
Blow-up, Antonioni's masterpiece, was an absolutely revolutionary film in 1966 and, after more than 50 years, presents some elements...

JORGE MARIN
Jan 25, 20192 min read
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Wings of desire: why am I me and why not you?
Wings of Desire, awful translation of the Germanic original Sky Over Berlin, is a magnificent movie. From the roof of the...

JORGE MARIN
Jan 18, 20192 min read
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Last Year in Marienbad: how so?
Last Year at Marienbad is a movie unlike anything seen in the movies. Many call it a cinematic experience, and it is not known if it is...

JORGE MARIN
Jan 11, 20192 min read
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Spider-verse: universes parallels to animation
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a movie that surpasses the shallow concept of animation and launches (webs?) in a well-elaborated...

JORGE MARIN
Jan 4, 20192 min read
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The Bourgeoisie we are all, without charm
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is an obligatory film in all aspects. And this is because the concept of the "bourgeoisie" has been...

JORGE MARIN
Dec 28, 20182 min read
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Clockwork Orange, perpetrator and prey
If not mentioned its release year, 1971, Clockwork Orange could be mistaken for a modern documentary on gangs. The subject here is not...

JORGE MARIN
Dec 21, 20182 min read
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The Seventh Seal, annoying perfection
When asked why I started Filmes Fodásticos (Fuckastic Movies in English), I answer that it is for people to feel tempted to watch movies...

JORGE MARIN
Dec 14, 20182 min read
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Apocalypse Now, horror and power of destruction of our
Apocalypse Now is not a war movie. Conceived initially from Joseph Conrad's book Heart of Darkness, which tells of the pursuit of an...

JORGE MARIN
Dec 7, 20182 min read
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The Last Tango in Paris: subversive until when?
Curious is the word "subversive" that has been the adjective most applied to The Last Tango in Paris. Curious because, 46 years ago, when...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 30, 20182 min read
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You Can't Take It With you: anthem to the cinema
You Can’t Take It With You is an ode to the cinema. At the age of eighty, there is nothing that makes it more naive or outdated. In the...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 23, 20182 min read
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Tess: inescapable seduction?
Tess was the first movie directed by Roman Polanski after his flight from America to get away from the accusations of rape. There is no...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 16, 20182 min read
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Amarcord: horny for life
Until Amarcord, the adjective Fellinian used to be defined as "burlesque," "allegorical," and "imagistic." Amarcord, who would be a...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 9, 20182 min read
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