Favorite films

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  Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Apr 2023

  breathtakingly beautiful, made me weep

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  Manhunter 1986

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Apr 2023

  wish i saw this before red dragon, but alas. manhunter and red dragon are both of course adaptations of the book, red dragon, by thomas harris, and so the story is extremely similar. while i loved both films, here are some notable differences:

  - manhunter has way less hannibal, probably because it's faithful to the source material and doesn't capitalise on the franchise IP the way red dragon capitalises on the silence of the lambs
  - manhunter has a weird…

Popular reviews

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  In the Mood for Love 2000

  ★★ Added

  The story is thin; characters are mute, shallow people spun to be mumblecore-depressed, lovesick, and disillusioned adults; and the 'atmosphere' it leans on suffers from repetitive and narrow visual/audial ideas (The score is a ~5 second motif/catchy riff abused and repeated recklessly)
  while technically impressive, its ideas are either actually obvious (they are in fact not really in the mood for love) or have obvious implementation (the film ends with a plastic bag American beauty-esque scene).
  Looks great as a cinematography exercise, sucks otherwise
  (Watch chungking express instead)

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  The Mist 2007

  ★★★★ Added 3

  This movie is equal parts SyFy and Alien, where creatures are either hinted at and obfuscated in the mist, or completely exposed with charmingly bad CG. The exposure & obfuscation parts of the creature horror work together to constantly balance tone, and this is all of course background noise for the true social horrors happening in the grocery store they are confined in.

  At the heart of the film is an epic escalation of social chaos that is somehow still structured…

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