The most "human" film ever made?

An extraordinary existential piece that, at times, forces us to look at our humanity through the poverty of the human face.

Dangerous and spontaneous, "Shadows" presents issues of racism and sexism through the purity of improvisation. Six Stars.

"I'm boarding this run-down truck, but you're trying to catch the train of humanism before it's too late. I won't stop you. You seem willing to pay the fare, no matter how high."

De-saturation.

Sleep well in your beds.

"Blue" seems to have an extraordinary influence on Malick's "Tree of Life".

Occupy Wall Street?

Interesting that this was released the same year as Bergman's "Persona" - the only other film that I could think of that reaches so deeply into the psychology of existentialism.

The most beautiful horror film.

This is the greatest American film.

"Well?"

Many elements here from the best of Coppola and Scorsese in the Seventies, infused with Cassavetes claustrophobic "Faces" style of (non) framing. Outstanding performances.

The film could have benefited from some kind of suspense. I don't know whether he (Newton) chose not to go home, or if circumstances (friends, enemies?) prevented him from succeeding in his mission. Without such dilemmas, the film fails to realize and sustain the "modern isolated man" symbolism. I believe Roeg should have first watched a film about a modern isolated taxi driver in New York that same year.

So...five years preceding Night of the Living Dead, Kurosawa created the Zombie genre in the heroin alley scene?

Seething portrait of corporate Japan through the lens of a kind of Shakespearean Noir where men must witness their own funerals. Six Stars!

Subtle and restrained film...that feels like a slow southern drawl.

Offbeat and disturbingly well-written dialogue.

Rosebud.

Holy Cinema.

The spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. 1J4.4

Something like a Twilight Zone episode, a rare Winchester rifle brings death upon each of it's dishonest takers, until finally it returns to it's true owner.

Sometimes good men get greedy, and sometimes bad men get redeemed.

Those fucking scissors...

How much is a man worth?

Maybe not factual nor appropriately clinical (regarding Mental Illness), but certainly a strong symbol of both the resistance and potential indulgence of evil in every human being.

I've heard it said, but had never actually seen someone light a fire under a donkey's ass.

The modern institutions that separate us have not yet brought us back together.

What do you do? - I'm a preacher. - What church? - Church of the Truth without Christ. - Protestant, or..or somethin' foreign? - Oh, no, ma'am. It's Protestant.

King of Limbs Mashup.