Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Stranger Than Paradise 1984

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  Home is where I want to be
  Pick me up and turn me round
  I feel numb, born with a weak heart
  I guess I must be having fun

  Often, I seized the opportunity of travel to reinvent myself. This film understands that appeal, along with the crushing realty that comes with realizing that the past informs the present no matter the milieu. A balm for our uncertain times, this is a film that offers the comfort of knowing that we're all just animals looking for a home, each looking to be loved 'til our heart stops.

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  The Beast 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 29 Dec 2024 2

  Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.

Popular reviews

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  Little Fish 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2024 1

  I recently read Yōko Ogawa's The Memory Police, a moving piece of science fiction that was released in 1994 but was only translated to English and released in the U.S in 2019. It details the life of a writer living on an island during a surveillance state, whereupon a governing body decides what can and cannot be remembered. From objects of sentimentality like music boxes or roses to limbs get sacrificed. It's a macabre narrative that will be adapted by…

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  Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Oct 2021 2

  How's it feel to be at the center of magic
  To linger in tones and words?
  I opened the floodgates
  And found no water, no current, no river, no rush

  It’s been a weird year, like a giant bruise that won't heal, every day a freshly open lesion. Or so it was for a while. I was caught in a love triangle, practically a mirror of the first story in Hamaguchi's remarkable new triptych anthology. And much like “Magic (Or…