The film consists of 92 brief biographies of people affected by the VUE who's last names begin with the letters F-A-L-L. © Letterboxd Limited. Were all the straight roles played by gay actors? Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances. It's an encyclopedic farce, a Dadaist Infinite Jest. sakura_falls uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. The Falls was really hard to get through. A mob's punishment of a lone man proves cruel and unusual in this nightmarish short film. This proves how sprawling, epic, and well crafted a comedy can be. A cute little queer indie film about a couple of Mormon missionaries falling in love. But it’s faults come at it’s direction which feels a little amateur. Greenaway's scrapbook film , a pisstake on documentaries, and also a filmic Finnegan's Wake, that's just as brilliant, obtuse, and indulgent as the Wake. But then people started liking it, so I was compelled to continue it. Coming out of film hibernation to say: yeah, this fucks. Favorites: Dazed and Confused (1993), Before We Go (2014), Good Will Hunting (1997), Interstellar (2014). Mobile site. 161 films watched. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand. 66 films watched. I like birds more and more the older I get. religious gay movies are always a big risk for me. 101 films watched. There's potential in the story, so I'm curious to see where it leads. The narration contained so much brilliant exposition that I wish I'd written it and also I'm sure Wes Anderson loves it. Whenever I get especially overwhelmed, I tend to feel a little sick. *(The) Falls asleep immediately after watching* I don’t think I’ve ever struggled to write a review before. It's also a relatively new genre, so it is fascinating to see it grow. It is an assault on the mind, both to grapple with the sheer abundance of information being spat out at you and to maintain your sanity through the brutally dry delivery of the whole thing. This…, This list started as a joke. In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. I chose to ignore it and let him play dumb and I let him believe I didn’t notice anything. I don’t know where to begin with this one. watching this movie is like being stuck on the longest bus ride in the universe going to the middle of alaska. During a weekend at a country home, a man and his pregnant wife tell their secrets to their best friend, jeopardizing their relationship. The Falls is the longest 90 minute movie ever made, but the Acting Nick Ferrucci delivers in the final four minutes makes it all worth it in the end. Just information! "She laughed." Pride: A Chronological History of Queer Interest & LGBTQ+ Cinema, Out Of The Closets And Into The Cinemas! TMDb 1.1K likes. Share this page it becomes a pretty funny, and seriously cute movie. From queer masterpieces to camp classics, documentaries to romantic comedies,…, Emre Bilgili 1,849 films 1,660 31 Edit, This list is films with LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) content that I watched or will watch. This faux-documentary, an archive of a fake event that tells fake stories of fake victims of a fake catastrophe, is crafted with such skill and clarity that it feels more real than reality. It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever sat through, yet I don’t think I can’t hate it because of how unique it is. “Now I am become Bird, the destroyer of seed.” - Jacamar Robin Fallpenheimer In The Falls, Peter Greenaway weaves a vision of a world hit by the Violent Unknown Event, the VUE which by all accounts seems to be some kind of bird-apocalypse. Join here. I didn´t like “The Revenant”. Bio: i want a love that falls as fast a body from the balcony These are the greatest films* I have ever seen, and from…, Stephen Williamson 3,130 films 1,405 15 Edit, David Blakeslee 4,273 films 773 59 Edit, Updated on 4/3/2021 - A list, arranged in order of original release, of all films associated with the Criterion Collection,…. Share this review. He falls into a mountain river and almost drowns. ", "Wanna watch a movie? With Nick Ferrucci, Benjamin Farmer, Brian J. Saville Allard, Quinn Allan. IMDb Favorites: La La Land (2016), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), It … The acting is great, the chemistry between the leads is really charming. The Falls takes place in an alternative reality sometime after the Violent Unknown Event (VUE) - an unexplained catastrophe that has something to do with birds. It’s an LGBTQ+ world and these are my other LGBTQ+ lists on Letterboxd: ➡️Minor Interest Films: In the Closet: A…, NeverTooEarlyMP 4,403 films 1,931 68 Edit, A collection of queer characters, representations, and sensibilities on film. Directed by Peter Greenaway. Watched Sep 09, 2020. After that conversation, the two leads alongside the war veteran watched the Godfellas and Casino. One of those moments when you feel like something was almost made with you in mind personally. They share a passion for their faith and learn to express their feelings, risking the only community they have for a forbidden intimacy. A sprawling science fiction microbudget epic, Peter Greenaway's The Falls is probably the most successful experimental feature I have seen and one that lasts 3 plus hours to boot. Every time I take a shit I'll add a random movie to this list, All the films mentioned in Kim Newman's Nightmare Movies. In the morning on our drive to work, I confronted him about it and told…. This film is overloaded with information that is told in disjointed way, which I found mentally exhausting. ", "I got these two queer pot smoking Mormons sitting here by the living room eating tacos. I know Greenaway never intended The Falls to be watched in one sitting, but the effect of Michael Nyman's musical themes makes it a strangely propulsive experience. Directed by Jon Garcia. The cheeky avantgardist on display here is a very different Greenaway than the baroque (I think I like this one better), and The Falls is a grand experiment in no-budget filmmaking, and exercise of pure imagination like no other. “Seraphim Falls“ is much cooler Ich konnte ja mit „the Revenant“ gar nichts anfangen. NOTHINGS GAYER THAN THE MILITARY. There is no review for this diary entry. Maybe it was because I was a little tired, to begin with when I decided to sit down and click the start button. Manic and mechanical, The Falls keeps you in focus with its absurdities and allows you to solve the encyclopedic mystery with comic redundancies and run-ons. Titolo originale: The Fall: Lingua originale: inglese, rumeno, latino: Paese di produzione: Stati Uniti d'America, India: Anno: 2006 I know there's two sequels, and I'll be watching these next. yet again. An alternate history as told by a compiler of conspiracy theories, The Falls is totally unique, absolutely hysterical, and above all, the kind of movie that seems like it was made for people like…. horror films, heist…, gabriel guimarães? The Falls is a feature film about two missionaries that fall in love while on their mission. Overall 7.6, astonished by the two leads ability to have almost zero chemistry, I just broke up with my boyfriend and rewatching this movie is sort of taking my mind off of it but not really lol I’m sort of escaping my feelings. Whenever I get especially overwhelmed, I tend to feel a little sick. The disastrous sound mixing and non-existent color correction are but 2 major problems; hokey acting and a terrible sense of humor also being up for grabs. The Falls 1980. The fact that anybody made a film this good AND this gay for $7,000 is fucking insane. While watering plants, a man slips on a banana peel and falls from the rooftop of a tall building. They're updated to December 2020 or January 2021. I've got Finding Nemo, Princess Bride, Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket...". More details at This faux-documentary, an archive of a fake event that tells fake stories of fake victims of a fake catastrophe, is crafted with such skill and clarity that it feels more real than reality. You should see some of the things I saw. 1. letterboxd.com/dselwyns/list/120-lesbian-films-to-watch-before-saying/ 2. letterboxd.com/synchronicjty/list/gay/ 3. letterboxd.com/wikangel/list/lgtbq-films/…. Film data from TMDb. It has a lot of funny moments, but I think those are drowned out at least for me because of how much…. Colin Cantlie Stephen Quay Timothy Quay Michael Murray Lorna Poulter Peter Westley Aad Wirtz, Mick Audsley Digby Rumsey Diana Ruston Malcolm Hirst Dave Lawton, 195 mins This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. ", "A film was being made about the Holocaust and the Fallbuts were not surprised to be taken as extras. Living together and sharing the challenge of leaving home, the two men help each other discover their strengths. Report this film, my favorite scene was when the two gay mormons go to the pot smoking veterans house, get high, eat tacos, admit they're gay, ask if thats okay and the veteran says 'ARE U KIDDING. Nothing particularly groundbreaking about this film, but seeing RJ break down at the end describing how his sexuality is causing him to be cut off from everyone was pretty heartbreaking. The Falls 1980 ★★★★★ Watched Jan 09, 2017. Favorites: The Handmaiden (2016), Bad Education (2004), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Django Unchained (2012). oh my god. From intrigue to characters to meta-filmic elements, the movie is firing on all cylinders. Storytellers1 uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand. This minimalist indie gay film tells the story of two 20-year old boys doing their Mormon missionary calling as they gradually fall in love with each other despite their church's dogma. "-Life Without Buildings, Let's Get Out, The Falls is over 3 hours of cheeky, self-referential structuralist mythmaking, drawing lines between utter nonsense with mathematical precision, filling in the details of a world wracked by an inexplainable Violent Unknown Event, of which many people believe is the Responsibility of Birds. Maybe it was because I was a little tired, to begin with when I decided to sit down and click the start button. Add a review? 1980 FANTASTIC soundtrack. when that moment of exposure comes, and it always does, youre bracing yourself to see the characters bullied and manipulated into doing as their family and the church says. The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors. The two leads were sure easy on the eyes. In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Karl Marx, writes in Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: "Religious distress is at the same time the expression of…, Filmes com imagens, situações e personagens gays IMDb: www.imdb.com/list/ls073253519/ Filmow: filmow.com/listas/cinema-gay-filmes-e-curtas-l323/, The term cult usually refers to a social group defined by its religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or its common…. ", Only recommended to hardcore fans of structuralist cinema and Greenaway completists... but this is a film, and what a film it is, the ideal marriage of comedy and perfectly timed editing to create the backdrop for a wildly varied bittersweet depiction of some unspecified historical event which is at once hilarious and completely heartbreaking, perhaps the funniest movie ever made that seems intent on making people turn it off - this is an incredibly easy film to watch but one that will cater to a niche audience, and to a niche audience only - and I wouldn't have that any other…, aka 92 Fragments of a Chronology of Tragedy. The Falls is one of the peaks in cinema regarding the fusion between narrative and experimentation in celluloid, but most importantly (to a shocking extent), it is an inflection point in aka 92 Fragments of a Chronology of Tragedy It was not by planning, but by means, time and opportunity that my Greenaway marathon concluded with this film, a travel in time almost 40 years before… Stay tuned for the reboot where I get around to uploading the…. I could just not write anything, but I feel compelled to try my best to compile my thoughts. (Almost) every movie on Kanopy that's on Letterboxd. I've developed a hobby over the last 2 years of seeking out random gay indie dramas that get buried in the various streaming services. My engagement with this came to an end after about an hour, when my interest in seeing how many ways Greenaway could allude to birds or to vertigo began to dwindle. Nick Ferrucci Brian Allard Quinn Allan Benjamin Farmer Justin Koleszar, The Falls - Liebe kann nicht Sünde sein (2012), 115 mins A satisfyingly dramatic addition to what is slowly becoming a genre all its own: "the Mormon religion takes on the subject of homosexuality," The Falls is a welcome and humble low budget drama about two repressed gay young men who are paired up as Mormon missionary partners when looking to convert new members to the faith in a small town in Oregon.
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