Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  An Elephant Sitting Still 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Dec 2024

  An Elephant Sitting Still is a masterful work, one of my favorite films. Its filled with these long takes, Bela Tarr style, all shot on a cold & bleak winter day. The camera follows these four characters seemingly at the end of their rope. No hope and no future. They are filmed in these insane closeups and with such shallow focus, that other characters in the film are almost always out of focus, usually yelling or berating our main characters. The…

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  By the Stream 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Dec 2024

  An absolute beauty. Has what might be my favorite scene out of a Hong film ever

Popular reviews

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  When My Love Blooms 2020

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  the hold wong kar wai has over this drama

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  Uncut Gems 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2020

  more stressful than a game 7. An extremely unpleasant and heart pounding ride. I loved it