​​🎬✔️ "Her"
Director/writer: Spike Jonze
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2013
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson (voice only), Amy Adams, Rooney Mara ...
Genres: drama, romance, science fiction

Denoscription on IMDb:
"In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need."

Ratings
IMDb: 8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 94%
- Audience score 82%

​​YouTube channel 📹🔥: "Кажан"
Country: Ukraine 🇺🇦
Denoscription on YT: "Городские исследования. Краеведение новой волны."
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
The most popular videos:
"Тайны Байковой горы. Киевский крематорий, склепы, поселок Забайковье." (497K views)
"Сколе. Таємниця Бойківщини" (332K views)
"Забытый город. Документальный фильм про исчезающие местности Киева" (197K views)
"Нивки, Дегтярі, Волейків. Зникаючі хутори, погреби монахів, містичне кладовище." (171K views)
"Заброшенные кладбища Киева. Исследование-2023" (167K views)

​​🎬✔️ "Wings of Desire"
(🇩🇪 "Der Himmel über Berlin")
Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger
Countries: West Germany 🇩🇪, France 🇫🇷
Year: 1987
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk ...
Genres: fantasy, drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal."

Ratings
IMDb: 8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 98%
- Audience score 93%

​​🎵💿🖤 John Frusciante - : I I .
Released: Feb 3, 2023
Label: Avenue 66 (Acid Test)
Genres: electronic, ambient, drone, experimental, noise

John Frusciante:
"After a year and a half writing and recording rock music, I needed to clear my head. I listened to and made music where things generally happen gradually rather than suddenly. I would set up patches on a Monomachine or Analog Four and listen to them, hearing one sound morph into others, making changes to a patch only after having listened for quite a while, gradually adding elements, and finally manipulating the sounds on the fly. All tracks were recorded live to CD burner, with no overdubs, and executed on one or two machines.
...
Music being a solitary sculpture in sonic space was the main motivating thought. I was looking at pictures of sculptures and trying to make music that simultaneously conveyed both movement and stillness. I refrained from sudden musical changes, especially avoiding sequences of notes and rhythms. In fact, this music was made from sequences which never exceed a single note, many of these pieces being made on a single pattern. The movement which a good sculptor conveys when the shape of his medium meets the eyes of the viewer who walks around the piece, or the sun changes its position, are the kinds of movement which it was the role of the synth patches to communicate.
...
This music seeks to just exist, and is not attempting to manipulate or grab the listener in any way. I believe it works well if one listens loud and focuses on it, but also works well at soft volumes and in the background. It can compete with silence on silence’s own terms, and it can also happily wipe silence out."

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Spotify
YouTube Music
Apple Music
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. I : (vinyl version of the album) on Bandcamp

See also:
"Maya"

​​🎬✔️ "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio"
Directors: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
Writers: Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, Carlo Collodi
Countries: USA 🇺🇸, Mexico 🇲🇽, France 🇫🇷
Year: 2022
Starring (voices): Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton ...
Genres: animation, fantasy, musical, drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A father's wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 97%
- Audience score 91%

​​YouTube channel 📹🔥: "Михаил Закусилов"
Country: Ukraine 🇺🇦
Denoscription on YT:
"Глядачі пишуть, що це душевний канал, і тут виходять душевні фільми. Автор сподівається на Ваші, такі ж добрі, чемні та душевні коментарі. Відволічіться трохи від усіх бід, прикростей та метушні цього світу і нехай Ваша Душа відпочине. Мирного неба та Любові! І якщо Простору буде завгодно, то тут ще якийсь час виходитимуть фільми про річки, природу, людину.."
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
What to watch:
"Днестр - от истока до моря" (34 episodes)

​​🎬✔️ "The Adventure"
(🇮🇹 "L'Avventura")
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writers: Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini, Tonino Guerra
Countries: Italy 🇮🇹, France 🇫🇷
Year: 1960
Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari ...
Genres: drama, romance, mystery

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 94%
- Audience score 88%

​​🎬✔️ "Aftersun"
Director/writer: Charlotte Wells
Countries: UK 🇬🇧, USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2022
Starring: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't..."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 95%
- Audience score 81%

​​📖✔️ "Old Goriot"/"Father Goriot"
(🇫🇷 "Le Père Goriot")
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Country: France 🇫🇷
Publication date: 1835
Genres: novel, fiction, classic literature ...

Denoscription on Goodreaders:
"Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, who came to Paris from the provinces to hopefully make his fortune. He befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. The story is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for wealth."

​​YouTube channel 📹🔥: "JuliusRou"
Country: Estonia 🇪🇪
Denoscription on YT:
"Привет! Меня зовут Юлиус и я живу в пригороде Таллинна, Эстония.
Я снимаю влоги о повседневной жизни в Эстонии, путешествиях по Северной Европе и урбанистике."
Language: Russian
The most popular videos:
"Елливаре: как живут шведы за полярным кругом? | Необычное Заполярье" (3.4M views)
"Вильнюс: как живут литовцы и как выглядит город | Первые впечатления" (857K views)
"Особенности жизни в Эстонии | К чему трудно привыкнуть эмигранту?" (705K views)
"Хельсинки: как живут финны и почему им не мешает климат?!" (522K views)
"Как выглядят пятиэтажки и панельные микрорайоны в Хельсинки?" (511K views)

​​🎬✔️ "Chungking Express"
Director/writer: Wong Kar-wai
Country: Hong Kong 🇭🇰
Year: 1994
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Faye Wong ...
Genres: drama, comedy, romance, criminal

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 88%
- Audience score 93%

​​🎬✔️ "Rope"
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Hume Cronyn, Patrick Hamilton, Arthur Laurents
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1948
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger ...
Genres: crime, drama, thriller, mystery

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 92%
- Audience score 90%

​​🎬✔️ "Winter Light"
(🇸🇪 "Nattvardsgästerna")
Director/writer: Ingmar Bergman
Country: Sweden 🇸🇪
Year: 1963
Starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A small-town priest struggles with his faith."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 74%
- Audience score 91%

​​🎬✔️ "Alcarràs"
Director: Carla Simón
Writers: Carla Simón, Arnau Vilaró
Countries: Spain 🇪🇸, Italy 🇮🇹
Year: 2022
Starring: Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Josep Abad, Albert Bosch ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 91%
- Audience score 70%

​​🎬✔️ "The Phantom Carriage"
(🇸🇪 "Körkarlen")
Director: Victor Sjöström
Writers: Victor Sjöström, Selma Lagerlöf
Country: Sweden 🇸🇪
Year: 1921
Starring: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm ...
Genres: drama, fantasy, horror

Denoscription on IMDb:
"On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 100%
- Audience score 90%

​​🎵💿🖤 Aindulmedir - Star Lore
Released: Feb 17, 2023
Label: Hypnagoga Press
Genres: electronic, ambient, dark ambient, dungeon synth

Denoscription on Bandcamp:
"Lore sung by a thousand winters, woven by celestial sleep."

Music and art by Pär Boström.

Bandcamp
Spotify
YouTube Music

See also:
Underwater Sleep Orchestra - The Night and Other Sunken Dreams (2021)

​​📖✔️ "On the Marble Cliffs"
(🇩🇪 "Auf den Marmorklippen")
Author: Ernst Jünger
Country: Germany
Publication date: 1939
Genres: novel, dystopian fiction, magical realism ...

Denoscription on Goodreaders:
"The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the rough pastoral folk in the surrounding hills, who feel increasing pressure from the unscrupulous and lowly followers of the dreaded head forester. The narrator and protagonist lives on the marble cliffs as a botanist with his brother Otho, his son Erio from a past relationship and Erio's grandmother Lampusa. The idyllic life is threatened by the erosion of values and traditions, losing its inner power. The head forester uses this opportunity to establish a new order based on dictatorial rule, large numbers of mindless followers and the use of violence, torture and murder."

​​🎬✔️ "No Man's Land"
Director/writer: Danis Tanović
Countries: France 🇫🇷, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦, Italy 🇮🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, UK 🇬🇧, Slovenia 🇸🇮
Year: 2001
Starring: Branko Đurić, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Šovagović ...
Genres: drama, comedy, war

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 93%
- Audience score 92%

​​🎬✔️ "The Great Dictator"
Director/writer: Charlie Chaplin
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1940
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner ...
Genre: comedy, drama, war

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 92%
- Audience score 95%

​​🎬✔️ "The Match Factory Girl"
(🇫🇮 "Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö")
Director/writer: Aki Kaurismäki
Countries: Finland 🇫🇮, Sweden 🇸🇪
Year: 1990
Starring: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko ...
Genre: drama, comedy, crime

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Audience score 86%

See also:
"Shadows in Paradise"
"Ariel"

​​🎬✔️ "The Silence"
(🇸🇪 "Tystnaden")
Director/writer: Ingmar Bergman
Country: Sweden 🇸🇪
Year: 1963
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Jörgen Lindström ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 84%
- Audience score 88%

See also:
"Through a Glass Darkly"
"Winter Light"