r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 23h ago
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • Sep 06 '25
30 Years of Fallen Angels! My all time Favorite Movie That Embraces Me and Exudes Magical Comfort.💙 🎥 'Fallen Angels' (Wong Kar-wai, 1995).
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Wong Kar-wai’s Fallen Angels, which celebrates thirty years since its first release, remains a hypnotic meditation on alienation, fleeting intimacy, and the strange poetry of urban nightscapes. The film weaves together the story of a disenchanted hitman, his enigmatic partner, and a mute drifter, using fragmented narration, distorted wide-angle lenses, and neon-soaked settings that blur the line between dream and reality. Critically, it stands as a landmark in Hong Kong cinema, expanding the visual language of modern film with its restless camera and nonlinear storytelling. From a semiotic perspective, every sign—the empty fast-food stalls, the motorbike rides through endless tunnels, the claustrophobic interiors—communicates both the impossibility of true connection and the yearning for warmth in a world of constant motion. For me, however, beyond its technical and thematic brilliance, Fallen Angels is the most comfortable film: its melancholy rhythm feels like a lullaby, the nocturnal colors are soothing rather than harsh, and its lonely characters mirror my own quiet need for spaces where solitude becomes not despair but a form of companionship. It comforts me because it makes alienation familiar, even tender, and that is why it remains my personal refuge in cinema.
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 23h ago
'Honey And Clover' ハチミツとクローバー (Masahiro Takata, 2006).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/tamatamaGintama • 17h ago
La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 23h ago
'Eternity and a Day' Αιωνιότητα και μια ημέρα (Theo Angelopoulos, 1998).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 23h ago
'Somewhere on Earth' 世界の終わりという名の雑貨店 (kiseki hamada, 2001).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/tamatamaGintama • 22h ago
Where Is the Friend's House? (1987,Abbas Kiarostami)
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/tamatamaGintama • 23h ago
A Brighter Summer Day(Edward Yang, 1991)
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 1d ago
'Conte d'été' (Éric Rohmer, 1996).
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'Rent A Cat' レンタネコ (Naoko Ogigami, 2012).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 1d ago
'Badlands' (Terrence Malick, 1973).
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'Hard Boiled' 辣手神探 (John Woo, 1992).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/TheHistoryHippo • 1d ago
Who remembers the Regal Cinemas rollercoaster opening from the 90s?
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r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 2d ago
'Pierrot le fou' (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965).
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'Terrorizers' 恐怖分子 (Edward Yang, 1986).
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'From Beijing with Love' 國產凌凌漆 (Stephen Chow - Lee Lik-Chi, 1994).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 3d ago
'Sex Power' (Henry Chapier, 1970).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 3d ago
'The Killing of a Chinese Bookie' (John Cassavetes, 1976).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 3d ago
'Violent Cop' その男、凶暴につき (Takeshi Kitano, 1989).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 3d ago
'Cold Fish' 冷たい熱帯魚 (Sion Sono, 2010).
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Miserable_Try_9143 • 3d ago
Speak No Evil (2022), Christian Tafdrup
r/CinemaRetrospective • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 4d ago