On the Silver Globe was almost completed when a Polish politician —Willhemi— ordered to destroy all the negatives of this film. God-tier sci-fi. All of its successes are wonderful and probably not replicated anywhere else in film. © Letterboxd Limited. It's unfinished and released many years after the filming. I can handle the truth. With Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Grazyna Dylag, Waldemar Kownacki. eh como se rodasse em uma janela aberta em segundo plano na minha cabeça. I'm not nearly as well-read as I should be; it's honestly been a while since I've done much reading, but one of my favorite books (if not my absolute favorite) is Kafka's The Castle. However, this book doesn't even have an ending, Kafka died before he could complete it and it ends mid-sentence. On the Silver Globe is a beautiful mess like nothing I have ever seen before, and a film most of you have probably never heard of. ‘On the Silver Globe’ review by Daisoujou • Letterboxd Daisoujou’s review published on Letterboxd: The world is full of unfinished art. farukyildirim1 uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. pkbrown uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Join here. See, dialog in On the Silver Globe is exclusively shouted, and exclusively philosophical monologs. All of that said, well, I wish I liked it more. It's as if the shittiest Planet of the Apes sequel from the '70s fucked the Zion sequences from The Matrix Retarded and gave birth to some mutant population of nonsense-spouting quasi-primitive cretins. On the Silver Globe is a beautiful mess like nothing I have ever seen before, and a film most of you have probably never heard of. The tree is only as good as its seeds. something truly otherwordly, some surreal phantasmagoria is buried here under an exhausting harangue of existential noise, like a garbled psychic transmission auto-translated repeatedly until it degrades into an illegible and hyper anxious affectual texture. the grating maximalism obscures a much more compelling alien world whose atmosphere and culture we never get to fully experience. This is what a science fiction epic should look like, warts and all. ‘On the Silver Globe’ review by pkbrown • Letterboxd pkbrown’s review published on Letterboxd: Zulawski’s sheer perseverance to make this film is remarkable! On the Silver Globe 1988 ★★★★ Watched May 22, 2020. claire’s review published on Letterboxd: I feel similarly toward this film as I do about Marketa Larazova: beautiful mystical landscapes and sprawling imaginative scenes yet I can't get beneath the surface of it. The fractured nature of Globe only adds to its visceral energy; Żuławski's camera weaves and tilts, frantically searching for truth but finding nothing. There is a suggestion of how he generally wanted it to end online, but that's it. Eventually the begin a new civilization which leads to a lot of crazy cult-like shit that I don't want to spoil. Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. I only believe in perfect freedom, ours, mine. On the Silver Globe. The film is incomplete due to it being seized originally by the Polish Communist party(although Żuławski does a voiceover to fill in the story gaps), the translation is quite poor, and as far as I know, there is no decent quality version of this film…. Block or Report. The narration isn't as out of place as you'd think for something this bizarre. it just seems like the film is somewhat at odds with itself. It's with this purely open mind that I entered On the Silver Globe. lamblyoptic uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. In a meta sense, it's as if, ultimately, The Castle itself gives up. It's as nagging and grating as being in a neurotic's head (I should know, I am one!). I love art films and all the dogma and esotericism that comes with them. Watched Mar 13, 2020. Film data from TMDb. there really is something that deeply compels me about the vision of this alien planet and the way it unfolds in time. But occasionally these works get more popularity despite their rough state. 92 films watched. Held at … We've all seen films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stalker and Under the Skin and I can say without hesitation that On the Silver Globe should be added to this list. Watched Apr 18, 2020. reibureibu’s review published on Letterboxd: Here is one planet dying and another planet beginning, the ambassadors of the former colonizing the landscape of the latter. All I can say I got out of it is the birth of new civilizations, the impacts of cross-civilization encounters (particularly when one appears otherworldly), and the dark side of religion. Production on this film was ordered by censors in the 70s to be stopped, many materials were destroyed, and it was only pieced back together and released in the 80s. stretches of coastline, evocative costuming, the city of the psychic birds. It jumps wildly from place to place, person to person, even mid-scene there will be several cuts that teleport people around the frame to knock us off balance. Southland Tales). Apparently, Willhemi opposed artistic freedom and tried to compel the ideology of his party, communism and agrarianism, to the Polish people.At the end, the negatives weren't destroyed, but the proyect was shut down. In that case, much appreciation goes towards the cast and crew for preserving what they can. Pessimistic worldviews. It's all but unwatchable, far as I'm concerned—bad actors wandering barren landscapes in ridiculous costumes, gesticulating wildly for no reason. 2020. The book's funhouse mirrors of bureaucracy are maddening, centering on a quest that can never get anywhere. A very very different take on a ‘found footage’ kind of film and I appreciate a lot of what it’s doing here. This review may contain spoilers. If I had turned off the subtitles, this is a five star movie. Favorites: Brazil (1985), The City of Lost Children (1995), City of God (2002), Baraka (1992). And so we begin the dawn of a new yet old civilization, astronauts who crash into nothingness and must create life out of nothing. Favorites: Cure (1997), Naked (1993), O Signo do Caos (2003), On the Silver Globe (1988). 1988 The government official who stopped production because he saw connections to real Polish politics is either far better at interpreting art than me, or just projecting his own life onto what he sees (which is great for him, except for the part where he claimed that was definitely the intent and destroyed the art). well that certainly was quite the experience. More details at Bio: Finding the mystical at the movies * *Nobody cares if you don't think…, Simon Ramshaw 255 films 15,350 602 Edit, Recently, I've become aware that certain films are able to transcend the medium by being completely self-assured in their atmospheres…, MomSaysItsOK 1,000 films 9,435 110 Edit, In April 2018, the subreddit /r/TrueFilm voted for a canon of 1000 films. We…. This was worth the extra decade it took to make. Film data from TMDb. Review by dan On the Silver Globe 1988. Review by Dante Pro. A stunning continuation of what cinema started with A Trip to the Moon. Żuławski accompanies these spoken segments with footage from around town: people on escalators, shots from cars, subways, etc. Sometimes it manages to be dizzying in exactly the way it wants to be and I fall in under its spell for a bit. Watched Jun 15, 2019. dan ’s review published on Letterboxd: can’t explain it but the last hour or so feels like the raindrops that fall down in traffic. [Originally written on my blog. Are we the last of those who retain power, or the first of those who are defenceless? June 2017 Scavenger Hunt #27 TASK #27/28: Two sci-fi films with similar themes so you can compare and contrast them! Watched On the Silver Globe 1988 ★★★★ Watched Mar 23 , 2020 v’s review published on Letterboxd: SESIÓN 10, a cargo de fridge y silver On the silver globe, de Andrzej Zulawski/1987 El film utiliza la ficción para acercarse más a la filosofía que a lo estrictamente científico y/o tecnológico. © Letterboxd Limited. So time and time passes, the first generation slowly dying out until there is one old progenitor left and the new…. Nov Zulawski was put in a position where he was informed he would not be allowed to shoot the final 20 percent of the film. Step Two: Pick a Number. There was never going to be a version of this movie that wasn't a fractured mess in a sense, haha. Ruminations on civilization, religion, politics, history, mythology, and the ultimate and embittered end of man. Review by Rhys Pro. Favorites: Mirror (1975), Stroszek (1977), Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past … Dante’s review published on Letterboxd: even in a truncated form (or maybe because of it ... Dante is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. The story can be separated into three different parts with all of them (probably) spanning hundreds if not thousands of years. A beautiful mess of a movie. It beat me down with so many words, only occasionally coherent, until my eyes glazed over and I could hardly go on attempting to comprehend the letters on my screen. Directed by Andrzej Żuławski. TMDb these are genuinely meaningful and powerful to me. Block or Report. On the Silver Globe is a science fiction horror that is kind of found footage... but if the words found footage freak you out rest assured this is no boring shaky cam jumpscare film... this is the real shit. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. And so in the wake of their landing they must make anew, bringing with them the knowledge and culture of the old. Nobody films anxiety quiet like Zulawksi. For when you want to wallow in despair. 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