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Recent reviews

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  Good Morning 1959

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2017 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Lovely Month of May 1963

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2015

  Five images from Le Joli Mai, offered without comment: imgur.com/a/DHJPX

  "Why search for beauty in a dove, or poetry in poets, when you have owls, painters, cosmonauts..." and Chris Marker films?

Popular reviews

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  If I Had Four Dromedaries 1966

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Dec 2014

  "The photo is the hunt. It’s the instinct of hunting without the desire to kill. It’s the hunt of angels… you track, you aim, you fire and--click! Instead of a dead man, you make him eternal."

  If I Had Four Dromedaries seems like precursor to his masterpiece Sans Soleil, a bridge between it and his still photography work. A collection of images shot around the world, Dromedaries searches for what connects us and comments on the nature of the still…

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  Pig-Chicken Suicide 1981

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Dec 2014

  Bizarre, surreal, brutal, dripping with symbolism, and utterly incoherent. Matsui has a lot of amazing ideas here, and deeply cares about fighting prejudice, but it doesn't seem like he knows quite how to put them together. It's also extremely obvious how much of an influence Shuji Terayama is on him; the films visual style, use of color, and even the way he uses music echos him. Too bad that when Terayama saw this film, he supposedly called it garbage (though…