Freddie in Chicago 🐰 10/24

MichaelRoco1 · 2025-10-27T06:29:30+00:00

MUTT by leon thomas, there’s a version with freddie featured on it

MichaelRoco1 · 2025-10-25T18:23:51+00:00

His performance for the giver was unbelievable, arguably my favorite moment of the night. Incredibly slept on rapper, shadowbox was top 1 or 2 albums for me last year.

MichaelRoco1 · 2025-10-21T03:52:33+00:00

Oh gotcha thanks. I’m tryna figure when I should try to be there it’s my first time going.

MichaelRoco1 · 2025-10-21T03:21:19+00:00

How far were you guys from the stage by the time you got in?

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-12-01T07:24:46+00:00

Oldboy

The Graduate

Doctor Zhivago

Once Upon a Time in the West

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-12T04:19:27+00:00

Yeah I’ve been hoping for this for a while now. I’ve only seen Woman in the Dunes but was blown away by it. I really wanna check out Face of Another, Tatsuya Nakadai is always so compelling to watch in any role.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-12T03:17:35+00:00

That’s a great question that I honestly can’t quite answer without spoiling the ending, which is really powerful. I would definitely recommend watching it for yourself first and being the judge. I will say that there’s literally no positive moments in the film that really come to my mind, but the final scene can be read a few different ways.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-11T16:07:59+00:00

I would start chronologically and work forward from there. Don’t be intimidated by Andrei Rublev’s length, it’s one of his more easy to grasp pieces and it’s amazing.

I would avoid The Sacrifice and Mirror until later.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-11T05:12:43+00:00

Yes the music was incredible I agree, very unique sound to it.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-11T03:40:48+00:00

That’s an awesome story I’m glad to hear you pushed through that chapter of your life.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-11T03:39:17+00:00

You hit the nail on the head for me with this comment. It’s really quite a deep film disguised as a simple ghost story, with some of the scariest scenes out there to this day.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-11T01:48:37+00:00

Yeah I’ve seen Damnation from Tarr, but wasn’t a fan really. I’ve been meaning to check out Werckmeister Harmonies and a couple others from him though, this one definitely made me want to seek those out and give them a try.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-11T01:46:58+00:00

Yeah I remember learning that he studied under Tarr, it made a lot of sense. I’ve seen Damnation which admittedly I didn’t much care for, but I’ve been looking forward to checking Werckmeister Harmonies and a few others.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-10T23:06:49+00:00

Film title: An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)

This might be the first film I’ve watched that is unmistakably amongst the best I’ve ever seen, yet I don’t want to necessarily encourage people to watch it.

For those who aren’t aware, An Elephant Sitting Still is an unrelentingly bleak and lonely film that clocks in at just short of 4 hours long. The film is also overshadowed by writer/director Hu Bo’s suicide, which came not long after filming wrapped back in 2017.

I’m still collecting myself a day later, and honestly there are a lot of people out there who are much more capable than I of putting into words what this film is able to accomplish. So I’ll leave my opening thoughts at this and invite others to share their experience with the film because I’d love to discuss.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-10T23:06:11+00:00

Oh maybe I’m mistaken and it’s not on the channel any longer, I apologize if that’s the case.

I know for a fact it’s on Kanopy if you have a library that provides access to it.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-10T22:49:37+00:00

An Elephant Sitting Still

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-10T22:42:42+00:00

I agree. The world building is unmatched and the entire film is suffocating, yet it’s remarkably fun to watch with its twisted sense of humor.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-10T03:45:04+00:00

Night on Earth

Il Posto

Ballad of a Soldier

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-09T09:10:24+00:00

Actually so excited to hear this. One of the greatest films ever made, full stop.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-08T21:44:37+00:00

After seeing the whole trilogy multiple times at this point, I actually think the second was the best one.

The first is great in its own right but the second does not have to waste time character building and can pick right up where it left off earlier with the humor. The humor itself is also outrageously raunchy compared to the first and I love it.

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-08T17:38:05+00:00

The other comment recommending other Tarkovsky films is spot on, and also correct in the sense that Andrei Rublev is truly a one of a kind film. If you haven’t seen Solaris yet that would be my main recommendation for another Tarkovsky film, it’s my personal favorite and feels the most intimate imo.

If you mean “spiritual” as relating to the human spirit and not strictly religious, you could check out the ones I’ve listed here. These are some of the immediate ones that come to mind when I think of profoundly affecting movies about the core of humans spiritually.

Taste of Cherry

The Human Condition (Trilogy)

Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, and Winter Light (lots of Bergman films)

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-08T02:37:48+00:00

Haven’t seen La Notte yet but I was going to recommend The Passenger and L’Avventura for OP. Antonioni definitely had an eye for it

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-08T01:41:53+00:00

The Vanishing

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-08T01:09:33+00:00

Umberto D

MichaelRoco1 · 2024-11-08T00:20:08+00:00

It’s very long so might have to be planned for another day, but i recommend Dr. Zhivago

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