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  Before Sunrise 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Mar 2025

  my holy grail. always hits the spot and leaves my head in a flurry of thoughts. something new to take from it each and every time. my heart is etched out of this one

  the final shots of the empty places are an emotion in itself. to think it’s all there and then it’s not. all real yet so unreal, stuck in a moment that lasts as long as one’s memory does.
  “i like to feel his eyes on me…

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  Cinema Paradiso 1988

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  beautiful beautiful beautiful. a love letter to cinema, to people, to love, to the mundane things, to incomprehensible silly little feelings, to the whimsical. makes me believe magic truly does exist as long as films and people’s love for them will too. it’s a telling of the telling of stories, of people, and there’s just so much beauty in being able to witness those moments forever preserved in the form of film. words do no justice to all it made me feel and think about, but all i know is it lingers, and will continue to. i think we all need an alfredo in our lives

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  Before Sunrise 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Jan 2025 2

  i usually have too many words to describe anything i’ve watched or read. but for this one, i have none. to put it to words, to these solidified trapped concrete groupings divided by little spaces, it takes away all that it means to me (yes i’m still doing my ee on it). the flow, the ambiguity, the beautiful blurry mess of feelings. really nothing does justice to it like the twinkle in their eyes. like celine said, it’s not about…

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  The Sound of Music 1965

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2024 4

  i always loved liesl and wanted to be just like her when i grew up. i cant believe that now im almost two years older than what she was in the movie! when we were in salzburg a couple years ago, it was as if all the scenes were coming to life before my eyes; it was so endearing and nostalgic. the sound of music has been part of not only my childhood but my mother’s too, and i think…

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