EPEOLATRY

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Dir: Stanley Kubrick

I can't believe something can be that visually mystifying such as it needs no language. Something that's so enthralling and compelling that your heart can skip a beat even if you can't track the plot, you don't necessarily need a story or an explanation for such a thing. You are just lost into it and it is so satisfying.... Finally, after years of procrastination, Kubrick it is. I feel like I've opened some more doors of my subconscious by this other-worldly experience  ... Read More

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Dir: David Lean

'You make me sick with your heroics. There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills - they go well together, don't they? And with you it's just one thing or the other: destroy a bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war! You and Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman... how to die by the rules... when the only important thing is how to live like a human being'   ... Read More

Amélie (2001)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

'At least you'll never be a vegetable - even artichokes have hearts'   ... Read More

The Intouchables (2011)

Dir: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano

Once I discovered what ‘Metamodernism’ was, I wondered that was there any post-modern film in my favourites - yes, there is but I don’t think I did dig that on the first viewing so let’s rewatch it!   ... Read More

Black Mirror (2011 - )

Creator: Charlie Brooker

An Anthology that shows the Dark Side of Life and Technology  ... Read More

Chicago (2002)

Dir: Rob Marshall

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Life of Pi (2001)

by Yann Martel

“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”

Melancholia (2011)

Dir: Lars von Trier

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Silence (2016)

Dir: Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese is been working on Silence for 28-years, it’s his passion project. Scorsese was given the book of Shūsaku Endō’s ‘Silence’ as a gift by Archbishop Paul Moore after a screening of ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ and Scorsese read it a year later in Japan while he was working on Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. This film was so close to Martin personally due to his real life dilemma between faith and doubt, he wanted to become a priest in younger age before he started directing that he joined a preparatory school but unfortunately failed in trails, since then he’s been searching for meaning about God and religion. All these times until 2016, Scorsese studied its aspects and didn’t start making it tell he felt that he’s closer to understanding it. And the result, we get a breathtakingly beautiful film with a magnificent screenplay - that seems to be written after extensive research that it reads like a book with each line so fascinating  ... Read More

Island of a Thousand Mirrors (2012)

by Nayomi Munaweera