An absolutely amazing film. One that loves food almost as, or maybe even more than, it loves cinema. I need every movie to start off with Yakuza Koji Yakusho threatening people not to make noise during a movie in the theater or he'll off them. Also, it was great to see a young Ken Watanabe in this who I kept wondering who was for the first 15 minutes or so, and then it hit me whose young face I was…
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Aliens 1986
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Finally watching this film after having seen Alien (1979) a couple of times over the years. Not sure why I’ve waited so long to see this, even though I’ve owned a box set of the first four films for so long now. This film is as great as everyone says it is. I do think I enjoy the original more when the xenomorph feels more like this unbeatable threat instead of a bug that happens to have acid blood but…
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Anatomy of a Fall 2023
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A wondrous work of a courtroom drama. However, there are no “ah-has” or “gotchas” here. Instead, we get a complicated and complex examination of a relationship that goes through trials and tribulations just like many others. The whole time you feel just as conflicted as everyone else on whether Sandra was the one who killed Samuel or whether he committed suicide. I’ll say I’m still not sure which is the case. I do think it’s interesting we get a brief…
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Joint Security Area 2000
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God, what a fucking motion picture this is. The constant telling, re-telling, and re-contextualizing of what actually happened in this incident and adding more layers to make it feel fresh and more heartbreaking each time. Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-hyun, Song Kang-ho, and Shin Ha-Kyun even though they’re all really just getting started in their acting careers at this point in time, each of them brings a performance to the table that has you waiting to see what will happen with…
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The Piano Teacher 2001
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Enigmatic. This film surely did not turn out how I thought it would but I think that's what brings it more acclaim is that it could just be this repressed piano teacher and her student having an affair but it’s much more than that. To me, I see it as the expectations we set for things but when they happen in reality we aren’t ready for what the circumstance really is going to be like. The same goes for both…
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