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  Heretic 2024

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Boilerplate potboiler. Still, sometimes it’s nice to “have a Wendy.”

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  The Tale of Zatoichi 1962

  Rewatched 29 Oct 2024

  Weighed against the rest of the Zatoichi films, this first entry stands out for its sparse action. Ichi draws his sword only three times, by my count, and only twice in actual combat! But it's impressive how many of the series' characteristic elements were baked into this first entry, chief among them Ichi's persona: his sly humor, his trickster's approach to bullies and cheats, his resistance and anger toward unjust authority, his avowed loner status, his sense of shame around…

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  The Painted Hills 1951

  Watched 28 Jan 2018

  The Ruffenant

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  Paterson 2016

  Rewatched 03 Sep 2017 1

  Some books on Paterson's bookshelf:

  Paterson by William Carlos Williams
  Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
  Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
  The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
  Selected Prose and Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
  Howl by Allen Ginsberg
  On the Great Atlantic Railway by Kenneth Koch
  Alone and Not Alone by Ron Padgett
  The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
  Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara
  Walden by Henry David…