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It's a documentary with no narration. One of my favorite movies.
Extremely slow, uneventful, somewhat boring but weirdly hypnotizing through the constant rhythm - exactly like freight ships voyages.
Beautiful shots from the deck, crew quarters and finally the "belly" of a massive ship in artificial light look like something straight from a dark sci-fi. But the bits and pieces of the lives that the ship carries through the sea often again and again, bring you back to reality. The whole voyage starts feeling almost pointless - or maybe it is?
All of that to the never-ending droning, buzzing and thumping of the ship.
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🚢My sister is an architectural historian and lover of cities who runs the account @formfollowsfantasy, and last time we were together she showed me this beautiful and concise (only 77 min) documentary about Timothy “Speed” Levitch, a divinely inspired double decker bus tour guide in 1990s NYC. He is quite literally in constant conversation with the city and its inanimate (to most people) objects, and he possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of where the city’s great artists, writers, and performers prospered and suffered. He leads groups of unsuspecting tourists from all over the world on rambling jaunts through the city where he shares what appear to be stream-of-consciousness poetic performances with them from the roof of a double decker bus. Everything that enables the flow of life is “cruise” (a well composed outfit, undeniable sexual connection with a passerby) and everything that disrupts that flow is “anti-cruise” (cops, the never-ending grind of work for money). Words to live by.
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Is my favourite documentary in the world. Stylishly directed in black and white by Bennett Miller (best known for Capote and Moneyball), it circles around the magnificently exuberant existence of the playwright turned apple city tour guide Timothy "Speed" Levitch as he muses on the city of NY on and off his double decker bus.
I have a tendency to let my frustrations of the world to clench my muscles up and this is the film equivalent of a lump of mdma to melt my heart back open again with every rewatch. A poet can have an intense love affair with a bridge and a great poet can word it in a way that convinces you that they're not mad; or that even if they are, they are mad in the exact way life is supposed to be experienced in the first place.
A must-see for anyone who holds a warm spot in their heart for the insomniac city, or at least what it once could be through the eyes of an intensely intuned romantic eccentric.
I have a tendency to let my frustrations of the world to clench my muscles up and this is the film equivalent of a lump of mdma to melt my heart back open again with every rewatch. A poet can have an intense love affair with a bridge and a great poet can word it in a way that convinces you that they're not mad; or that even if they are, they are mad in the exact way life is supposed to be experienced in the first place.
A must-see for anyone who holds a warm spot in their heart for the insomniac city, or at least what it once could be through the eyes of an intensely intuned romantic eccentric.
Jul 4, 2024
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I think this is a documentary? Kind of like how Last and First Men is a documentary?
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