Aging isn't the most relevant thing that is stopping him from doing something actually groundbreaking. Its being arguably the most successful and prolific living director. Breaking new ground often comes from necessity.

No ,he'll make another great movie soon

Yea, probably. Aging makes us all less sharp at some point.

Consider the power of the images at the end of part 4 of Potemkin. The grandma approaching the soldiers, the mother and the baby carriage, and the ship firing on the opera house. "Some images I recall" is underselling it.

Martyrs

Mine too and it was kind of funny remember when he took the watch lol

Lmao

True

Cannibal Holocaust, Salo, Nekromantik, the list goes on and on

The first and second chapter both were captivating, but for different reasons. Got my money's worth.

The scene between Buric and his death wife on the beach is pure gold.

One of my favourite movie of 2022. Love it.

The oligarch giving advice to the pirate while getting a shave was hilarious.

True Ohhhhh and the pirate ohhh myyy goooddd lmao

The boat and the island scenes were very funny. I also appreciate how the preboat scenes sorta setup up the social dynamics for the rest of movie.

True LMAOOO

The entire captains dinner scene was great

Blade Runner 2049 is a fantastic choice. I 100% know you could at least the themes through shot types in a ton of different spots.

No Country for Old Men is also an interesting choice

Irreversible

Cloud Atlas. For a lot of obvious reasons. A lot of meaning a lot of innovative ways of expressing that meaning.

There's no better example of music supporting the meaning, themes, etc than star wars. George Lucas called it the oxygen of the films, shot and acted in such a way that you can understand the film with no dialogue because of the music

Ben Hur

White Noise

Dead poets society. Creativity vs rigidity

Amadeus

Nightcrawler would be an interesting one if you wanted to talk about a film that breaks conventions, especially with regards to music.

Here’s an article about James Newton Howard’s score and why it went against his instincts and traditional movie conventions. There’s a few interesting threads on Reddit from when it was first released, with people commenting how jarring they found the score and that it made them uncomfortable, which of course was partly the point.

For deeper meaning ‘one flew over cuckoo’s nest’ was recently added to Netflix. There’s a lot there to unpack from nurse ‘Ratched’ psychopathic personality and ability to subtly instigate and demean the patients, the viewers tendency to idolise and see them selves in mcmurphy and his attempts to save the minds of fellow patients and in his plight sacrifice himself and die for his friends in a Christ like manner, the patients who suffer from intimacy and trust with women, the doctors who over look the suffering of patients and rely on brutal technics like electro therapy that endure more suffering and lobotomies that mutilate patients. There’s alot to unpack, there’s a book to read, and there’s many you tube video essays that will help you understand the movie and it themes.

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