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Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Satantango
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Schindler's List

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  • The Soldier's Lagoon

    ★★★★

  • Man in Black

    ★★★½

  • Sing Sing

    ★★★½

  • All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★★

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  • Sing Sing

    Sing Sing

    ★★★½

    Follows all the familiar 'true story' beats, but gets elevated by showing a different side of convicts and incarceration, the liberating power of art and performing, and the casting of former inmates lends the film a certain genuineness.

  • All We Imagine as Light

    All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★★

    Completely submerges you into everyday Mumbai city (night)life. Loved it.

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  • Ashes

    Ashes

    ★★

    As much as I love Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s films, this is just purely experimental, playing around with a camera and publishing whatever random footage he got, without much reason or emotion.

  • Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park

    ★★★★★

    Over 25 years after its release, Jurassic Park still stands as an achievement in summer blockbuster filmmaking and, no, that's not just because of its innovative use of effects (but yes, that too).

    It's mainly because Spielberg understood the power of build-up and suspense much like he did in Jaws and, yes, also because those animals were expensive as heck to show, but that's not the point people. Just like Jaws didn't actually show the shark up 'till the 4th…

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