samir's Favorite Movies
Bigger Than Life (1956)
Unrated
A brilliant dissection of life in the 50s. Cortosone in the film is really just the catalyst that unleashes Ed Avery's deep-seated dissatisfaction with his lot. The movie looks like a 50s magazine ad for the perfect middle class existence. But those glossy surfaces and split level homes disguise regret, anger, fiduciary crises, and the neverending grasp for the perfect picture wish fulfillment fantasy that 50s America was taught to want to live in, but which always lies frustratingly out of reach to most.
The Long Day Closes
PG
A hallucinatory synaptic journey that finds breathtaking realism in surrealism. The film is constructed like a series of memories, where music acts as a bridge that defies space and time. It is instantly more realistic because of it's extreme stylization. Must see for all serious film lovers.
