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January 24th. Stay (2005), dir. Marc Forster

I'm actually surprised I've never heard of this film before, considering the great cast and powerful actings that it has. The photography direction and film edition were really important and well made here, with some confusing yet beautiful shots that went perfect with the whole story, and those details got us closer to the plot and the characters.

There's something I love about cinema: The fact that you can talk about whatever you want, in any way you want. The art of telling a tragic, sad, raw, cruel story in a beautiful, surreal way. The feeling a film leaves you when it's over, as if it just reinvented your whole life once again. And this film has it all.

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January 23. Simon Killer (2012), dir. Antonio Campos

This film, really, is something I've seen before. I was really disappointed and pressured to quit, but somehow I finished it. I'm just going to add something else: I'm really scared of contemporary filmmakers focusing more on the cinematography aesthetics than actually telling a story.

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philomena (2013) dir. stephen frears

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January 22th. Philomena (2013), dir. Stephen Frears

What a beautiful film. Really, now that I've seen it, I'm no longer surprised of why it got so many great reviews. Biographical films often are difficult to catch, but this screenplay was so beautifully portrayed. You really could feel Philomena's and Martin's feelings as the story developed, and it really can teach you and leave you a lot of things if you really pay attention. This is definitely going to my recommendations list, I really encourage everyone to watch this film.

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January 17th. Libertarias (1996), dir. Vicente Aranda

I wish I could write something about what happened in the Spanish Civil War, but sadly, I'm almost an ignorant in the subject. And that's really too bad, 'cause in my point of view, this film portrayed a social war perfectly, and I need to stand up and applaud the fact that it's inspired by Las Libertarias. Las, women. Women fighting. Women in war. Women worried. Women angry. WOMEN.

We can see a lot of what's still, maybe in smaller scales, happening to revolutionary women. We can see how, at least for a moment, everything happens to be fine but then again, it gets fucked up by men and the sad, sad society that we have created. It broke my heart a couple of times and I can't wait to learn more about this Civil War, so I can watch it again.

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restaurant (1998) dir. eric bross

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January 16th. Restaurant (1998), dir. Eric Bross

Even though the rate on Netflix told me not to get my hopes too high, any film with Adrien Brody on it gets my hopes TOO high. But at the end, I was slightly disappointed. Not because of him, not because of the rest of the actors, not because of the direction, but because of the plot and how it ended. The storytelling was alright, the characters felt too real during the whole film and we can see a lot of real, personal and interpersonal issues going on within the whole film, but even though I could feel the pain of the characters at some point, there was something I really missed and still, I can't really tell what that is. I should watch it again, reconsider the whole movie again, but for now, it left me expecting so much more.

2.5/5

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the double (2014) dir. richard ayoade

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filth (2013) dir. jon s. baird

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January 15th. Filth (2013), dir. Jon S. Baird

So this film is based on Irvine Welsh's 1998 novel, Filth. And it's directed by Jon S. Baird, a contemporary great Scottish filmmaker (c'mon, he directed Vinyl (2016), he's fucking amazing!)... Like, it's already amazing if you think about it that way. Sadly, I haven't read the novel, but considering Welsh woked hand with hand with director Baird, and is the executive producer of the film, I have no doubts this adaptation was up to Welsh's expectations.

Something I really like about Welsh and his writing, is that he writes about and for the fucked up ones. He takes every kind of person and shows us how corrupted they can be, how fucked up everyone is, and how life is such a cruel, cruel bitch. He shows us with no mercy how the world is really like, something not everyone has the guts to talk about. And that's something they portrayed really well in this film.

Corruption, addictions, lust, lies, abandoning, violence, racism, homophobia... All those things that have been here forever and doesn't seem to stop, not even a little bit. It really shows us that every head is a big universe and how hard it is to cope with some self thoughts and feelings sometimes.

The cinematography and the actings were too powerful not to notice, giving this film another great point for myself. This is going to be a movie I will recommend next time someone asks me what they should watch. Now I just want to go to my nearest library and get this book. I'm sure it's even better than the film, and that wouldn't surprise me for a little bit. Welsh is a fucking genius. And so is Jon S. Baird.

5/5

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eraserhead (1977) dir. david lynch

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the place beyond the pines (2012) dir. derek cianfrance

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January 14th. The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), dir. Derek Cianfrance

Brilliant. That's it, and I wasn't expecting less of this film, specially with that incredible cast that it has. But not only that, director Derek Cianfrance really knows how to get powerful actings, and he works beautifully with Gosling (as we could see in Blue Valentine (2010), c'mon), and he's also a great storyteller, leaving us hanging on the edge of every second of the film. Something that I really need to recall on, is the beautiful cinematography and ambient that he offer us, something I am really enjoying of some other contemporary filmmakers (such as Nicolas Winding Refn, who I think has a lot in common with Cianfrance, and is also someone that Gosling has worked with before, Drive (2011), with another incredible acting), people who have great respect and passion for films, and they really know how to do their work.

I'm deeply sorry I've never watched this before, but now that I have, I would say it's a must watch to everyone, 10/10.

5/5

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masculin féminin (1966) dir. jean-luc godard

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January 13th. Masculin Féminin (1966), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard's films are amusing. He has this amazing way of telling stories, making every one of them unique and incredible. This film, of course, wasn't the exception.

I watched this for the first time when I was fourteen or fifteen, as I wanted to get more into films and I remember I loved it and talked about it all day, but even thought it had a big impact on myself, last night, as I watched it again, it definitely left me with a different taste. Maybe because I could understand some things better, I could understand some references Godard plays with and I could understand his characters better.

This film is a lot of art forms mixed up together. It feels like a soft poem recited to you in the most beautiful way. It touches personal issues, as well as social issues that, 40 years later, still concern us. And just as life really is, this film is a rollercoaster everyone should get in.

5/5

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güeros (2014), dir. alonso ruizpalacios

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sing street (2016) dir. john carney