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Huo zhe (1994)
Enjoy it to the most
Well, what can I say. Some of the best films I´ve seen has been made in China or Japan. We in the "west world" really have something to learn from movies made in for example China like slow pace in the narrative and story... Also so called endings without an end...
This film is beautiful, stunning, and entertainment. It moves you, makes you think and the impression can only be: this was a superb movie!!!!!!
Ran (1985)
Pictrorial beauty can never be better than this
Pictorial beauty can never be better than this. The film is masterfully arranged and provide some of the most beautiful scenes I ´ve ever seen. Shakespeare would have been proud of this adaption from "King Lear". This is not the first film by Kurosawa that has a Shakespeare play as inspiration, but I think this is the best one of them all. Just look at the sky in the beginning when troubles occur, the sky and cloud changes to become hostile. This film is in my opinion Kurosawas number one movie.
Körkarlen (1921)
This film is a masterpiece to put it simply.
This film is a masterpiece to put it simply. Especially the double exposure made by the cameraman Julius Jaenzon. It is skillfully made even with the standards we are used to today seventy eight years later. Viktor Sjöström, the director, also plays the main character, David Holm. On the night of new years eve he is killed in a fight, and the legend says that the first one who dies on the new year, will have to work as a soul-collector in the form of a transparent ghost. There is a new soul-collector to be appointed every year.
The scene in which the alcoholic, David Holm, rises up from his dead body (like the soul is leaving his earthly body) in the churchyard (where the fight took place) is a real award for a filmloving eye. Also when the present soul-collector arrives with his horse and carriage is a beautiful but also a scary scene. David Holm recognizes this soul-collector as a drinkingfriend from earlier life. It is now his turn to take over. Just like Scrooge in Dickens story "A christmas tale", David is shown what his life and doings has led to for the people around him.
The film is about the danger of abusing drugs, in this case alcohol. It is based upon a book by Nobel prize winner Selma Lagerlöf. Viktor Sjöström filmed a few more of her books, but this is the one with the best outcome, maybe because this book is the most filmic of them.