Cinematic Favorites of August

These monthly listicles has already become traditional here on NGboo Art, so I won't yatter much in the introduction, and will cut to the chase right after warning you not to read my impression of Tarantino's glorious ode to ciné-magick and ye olde Hollywood (at the bottom of the article), if you haven't seen it yet.

Features:

1. The Riddle of Jaan Niemand (Kaur Kokk, 2018)

2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

3. Sudoeste (Eduardo Nunes, 2011)

3. The Prince's Voyage (Jean-François Laguionie & Xavier Picard, 2019)

4. With a Breath (Viveka Frost, 2019)

5. Little from the Fish Shop (Jan Balej, 2015)

6. Battledream Chronicle (Alain Bidard, 2016)

7. Ralfs Farben (Lukas Marxt, 2019)

8. Another Day of Life (Raúl de la Fuente & Damian Nenow, 2018)

9. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (André Øvredal, 2019)

10. Bird Island (Maya Kosa & Sergio Da Costa, 2019)

Shorts:

1. Emotive Transmigrations (Camelia Mirescu, 2016)

2. The Flying Fish (Murat Sayginer, 2019)

3. FRAGMENTA (Camelia Mirescu, E Gabriel Edvy & Jutta Pryor, 2016)

4. Furnace (Kent Tate, 2019)

5. I took nothing (Jutta Pryor, 2015)

6. Maniac 8.2.8. (Giorgos Efthimiou, 2015)

7. The Ordinary (Simon & Julien Dara, 2016)

8. Islands (Yann Gonzalez, 2017)

9. The Box (Dušan Kastelić, 2017)

10. Out of Autofocus (Mikhail Basov, 2016)

CF of January | CF of February | CF of March | 

CF of April | CF of May | CF of June | CF of July

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

I didn't know a hippy could be so darn creepy, and that beating the crap out of creepy hippies could be at once so funny, yucky, heartwarming and quintessential not only to the film it's happening in, but to the (magic of) cinema as well. Watching Tarantino's latest offering feels like there is only you and the big screen, and that pretty much nothing else matters, which is most probably why I couldn't wipe off the smile on my (45-minute-long) walk back home. Just like it's title suggests, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is a fairy tale, a dark and twisted one at that, in which a small, but crucial part in the history of 'The Dream Factory' gets rewritten in the most irreverent and satisfying fashion, with the exceptional Margot Robbie being its 'Princess of the Sun' who has the 'male planets' - Brad Pitt, ever-reliable, and Leonardo DiCaprio, slightly overacting his heart out - as well as all the 'satellites' revolving around her. The bittersweetness of this 'throwback to the groovy 60s' dramedy is deeply felt, whereby its 'oxymoronic' nature comes off as inimitable. A wonderful experience!