I left my brain at the cinema. Fortunately, I never really needed it much anyways.
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On the Silver Globe 1988
Confounding and artistically overwhelming. Some might call this brilliant. It's been a whole month since I saw this and I still don't know what to make of this. The first part of the film feels revolutionary as a found footage film. It was like I was watching a YouTube video - made before some of these stylistic traits were even popularised. The way the camera is integrated so wholly into the character's lives throughout a time period of their lives…
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Mickey 17 2025
Fun, funny, a really cool world building exercise, and some relatively light but insightful critiques of capitalism, politics and how power is organised. Still, the film's utmost priorities are to entertain rather than explore some of its pertinent themes - which were by the end, mostly left behind for a blockbuster-esque bang that embraces an optimism cultivated by democratically borne dreams.
It is an entertaining, well crafted and nicely directed film that will guide you out of the cinema with little to think about. Still, fun watch, and very well made.
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Shall We Dance? 1996
Shall We Dance? is a beautiful film. A film with a story that could have very easily went into another direction if a lesser director were to have taken over, it would not have been such a captivating watch.
In the capable hands of director Masayuki Suo, the film has a heart and soul. People's hidden emotions and feelings are brought out through the act of dance. The main leads, particularly Sugiyama played by Kiyoshi Kurosawa regular, Koji Yakusho feels…
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Blue Moon 1997
Though the film contains several great moments of humour, beauty and half-convincing poetic mumblings of life, ultimately the film's excitingly experimental structure of leaving the sequencing of events to the viewer (allowing the audience to choose the film's sequencing by arranging the film's 5 different parts in any sequence of their choosing) may possibly leave the process of enjoying the film with some confusion and cynicism - particularly with the seemingly scatterbrain introductions to characters, the somewhat jumbled temporal relations…
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