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Shakespeare's Women & Claire Bloom (1999)
A wonderful lesson
Indeed it is too short. Once I've started watching, it ended in a blink of an eye. I was numb in my chair at the end, trying to wake up again in the real world. It was a lesson, for me, an uneducated savage who knows almost nothing about the theater. I am very subjective too, because I was hoping to see a movie or documentary where Claire Bloom is 99.99% there on the screen. It's a ten out of ten for me. Six means popcorn, eight it was interesting and ten - I can watch it again and again, and every time I will find something new. At the end I felt like someone who just learned to read and is holding in his hands his first love letter. I think anyone can and will love theater after watching this documentary.
Three Into Two Won't Go (1969)
It's real, so it's sad ...
It's so seventies. I can even smell it like before the rain. A silent cold war that brought back all my life before my eyes again. And in the end everything goes up in flames like a volcano. It's real, because I watched it before and it was no movie. Brilliant, exceptional performance. And Claire Bloom. There I must stop. I am too small for such a great show. She does not need to talk even. Her eyes are saying a thousand words. Absolutely wonderful. This is the fifteenth film where I had the privilege of watching her performance. This is the fifteenth time where she is a completely different person. Even her voice is changed. Terry, Lady Anne, Barsine, Theodora ... and down on earth again with such pain, kindness and anger. Claire Bloom ...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Breathtaking
One can not just write a review about a masterpiece like 2001. Words are not enough to describe why you do not realize that over 10 minutes are without sound. It is the most deafening silence I've ever heard. Without dedicated FX software, computers, or digital cameras, it still offers the most realistic void-space-loneliness feeling. It's real. It is happening. You are there. Long shots, like Russian cinema. It's like a Mozart graphic presentation. It is perfect. Mathematically perfect. I am really afraid of writing, of trying to describe what the spectator feels during and long after this movie ends. It is something that haunts you for days, like a previous life you remember in a hypnotic regression. Yes, words are not enough to describe this masterpiece.