Holy shit, did I just get to heaven. Greatest movie ever, I called it. Fuck everything else, it all seems invalid after this. A guy's life put into film, can you possibly beat that. Watching this almost hurts
It took a long as time to get through, but it was all worth it. I'm gonna have to watch this high
Description:The magnum opus title of Mr. Mekas's latest film suggests the amount of time you'll have to devote to it. At 288 minutes, this is a blizzard of detail and filmmaking technique, and the movie crystallizes Mr. Mekas's life into a few hours of blissful, and eventually mournful, experience. Footage of daily life, fragments of happiness anThe magnum opus title of Mr. Mekas's latest film suggests the amount of time you'll have to devote to it. At 288 minutes, this is a blizzard of detail and filmmaking technique, and the movie crystallizes Mr. Mekas's life into a few hours of blissful, and eventually mournful, experience. Footage of daily life, fragments of happiness and beauty, trips to France, Italy, Spain, Austria. Seasons of the year as they pass through New York. Friends, home life, nature, unending search for moments of beauty and celebration of life friendships, feelings, brief moments of happiness. "The film is also my love poem to New York. It’s the ultimate Dogme movie, before the birth of Dogme."... (more)(less)
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What is it about?
Much like Prousts "A la recherche du temps perdue" Mekas's, it is a reflection on the years of his life past as seen through the eyes of a man who is perceiving his own death. Mekas beautifully edits together the scraps of film that fell to his cutting room floor while he was working on projects he "perceived" as important, not realizing that what was truly important were the details that he missed, that he left out in favor of the shot in focus, the shot in composition. H"
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"The greatest movie I've ever seen. To even call a work of art this utterly wonderful a "movie" is degrading it; a movie is trash like "The Dark Knight", this is art"
“Holy shit, did I just get to heaven. Greatest movie ever, I called it. Fuck everything else, it all seems invalid after this. A guy's life put into film, can you possibly beat that. Watching this almost hurts
It took a long as time to get through, but it was all worth it. I'm gonna have to watch this high” read more
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