not on mubi: Perfect Film (1986)

Missing: Shaolin Vs Lama

Like a dream

Best Humphrey Bogart performance I've ever seen

Jacques Rivette said he felt as if he was floating after he saw this, and I feel exactly the same way

Gaye lets her camera float around, turning something as simple as crossing a road into an act of joyous musicality. Each shot as sincere as its predecessor, this is a real triumph of humanism

Sincere, beautiful filmmaking

Strange that Lavants most understated performance is in Caraxs obvious tribute to the poetic narrative ambiguities present in Godards early films

Fords use of technicolor is absolutely gorgeous, and Waynes morally ambiguous performance lgives the film a brooding and strange tone that amounts to a silent and masterful final shot

Seagals singular blank facial expression throughout gives his performance humour and a strange sense of sincerity

Profound perversion. A towering, monumental critique of the time old battle between sex and faith

Can't believe I missed the beauty of this the first time round

A restrained, optimistic yet melancholy masterpiece

Absolutely beautiful, but what else can you expect from a Godard?

Could have been better were it not for the patronising final shot

The numerous zooms were unexpectedly brilliant

A beautiful meditation on identity, and whether your name, profession and the people around you really define your character

A sincere, affecting piece of work, full of both carefully formally and emotionally composed long takes. Bringing to mind Antonioni and McTiernan, this stands as something definitely worth revisiting a number of times

The collage like display of faces, guns, moving bodies and sinister nightlife is evidence alone of Ferrara's visual mastery, not to mention the complex moral questions posed within the narrative

The comparisons to Anderson only hold weight when we think of the Anderson behind the misconception of his supposed 'quirkiness'; Luke Wilson's harrowing suicide attempt in 'The Royal Tenenbaums', the drowned children in 'The Darjeeling Ltd' etc. Ayaode uses his charming visual style to subtly juxtapose against the morally ambiguous nature of his characters, resulting in a highly psychologically complex piece of work

He should do an Elvis Presley biopic called 'The King'

Very, very strange

The sweeping camera movements over Madame De and the Baron's interactions were beautiful

Frustrating and mesmerisingly beautiful, like Eloge A L'Amour, this did no less than to make me want to learn and understand more about the world

The beautiful opening dissolves of Devonshire countryside are the best thing in this ; the only time the filmmaking rises above incompetency is when Spielberg turns his attention from humans and focuses on the beauty of nature

Amidst all the abstractions, some genuinely great filmmaking

The final sequence is one of the finest non sequiters in film history

A film full of rhythm, movement, music and dance, a film like no other yet when you watch it feels so familiar, unbelievable

Revolutionary

Only makes me want to see Beau Travail even more