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annyun

Favorite films

  • Chungking Express
  • Your Name.
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Three Crowns of the Sailor

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  • The Greatest Showman

    ½

  • Bottoms

  • Woman at War

    ★★★★½

  • The Substance

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  • The Greatest Showman

    The Greatest Showman

    ½

    Wow, didn't think this movie would be this big of a let down. Yikes!! Zendaya needs spine, can't believe she agreed to star in this film. Clearly shows that film stars are not always the smartest people. This movie has no redeeming qualities.

  • Woman at War

    Woman at War

    ★★★★½

    I don't think I've seen an Icelandic movie before, but I will say this was a solid introduction. Woman at War revolves around an environmental activist / "ecoterrorist" who goes around destroying electrical lines, and causing obstruction to the economy in favour of saving the environment. In truth, this is a chase film where the woman is running away from the government. The humour of the film is brilliantly executed through multiple elements- the blurred diegetic-non-diegetic music with the musicians…

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  • Ichi the Killer

    Ichi the Killer

    ★★★★★

    Disclaimer: please don't think I am a sick bastard for liking this film.

    Ichi the Killer. Phew. This movie had me rolling on the floor laughing. Yea that old expression no one uses anymore. There are directors who understand films, and then there are directors who have vision: these are the people who rise above mediocrity and develop masterpieces. Takashi Miike sits somewhere near the top of this list. I don't know how I've never encountered him, perhaps because I'm…

  • Wanderers of the Desert

    Wanderers of the Desert

    ★★★★★

    This film is a deep meditative endeavour, of taking cinema- which is a modern form of storytelling and painting it with a new layer of old art. Folklore.

    In no way am I qualified enough in either Arab or Islamic literature to comment on the depth of this film. But I must talk about what I observe.

    The film is of course inspired by the director's sentimental attachment to the folklore in his own culture. Stories that have been passed…