at last saw the powerful/disturbing "The Secret Agent" (Brazilian, in Portuguese) which was nominated for an Academy award last year; directed by much-admired Kleber Filho & with a brilliant (if heartrending) performance by Wagner Moura, the first Brazilian actor to have been nominated for an Academy Award.
this is indeed a grueling experience at nearly 3 hours of achingly "real" realism set beside which our American blockbusters "Sinners" & "One Battle at a Time" (also Academy Award nominees/ winners) are big/bombastic/Broadway-amplified entertainments that scarcely share the planet with "The Secret Agent."
with all respect for American filmmaking, just a few minutes saturated in this quietly terrifying film reveal to us the difference between enormous American affluence in film budgets & that of the rest of the world, of "indie" masterpieces.
@TimAshAsh 10 from 10 countries:
Pereira Maintains
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
The Master and Margarita
Stone Raft
The Hour of the Star
The Last Temptation of Christ
Don Quixote
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Too Loud a Solitude
@RichardS7370 Hey Richard’s, congrats for reaching Ithaca after your musical odyssey. 🌈
My 5:
1 Radiohead: OK Computer (5pts)
2 Beatles: Abbey Road
3 David Bowie: Ziggy
4 U2: Joshua Tree
5 The Cure: Disintegration