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  Artist 2013

  Watched 08 Dec 2024

  -there's a scene where actors stand in front of a green train car, which looks exactly like an empty green screen. It's a funny affect, especially since the train is one of the higher effort sets of the film
  -for some reason the outdoor scenes seem to have way worse quality than indoors.
  -if you manage to see this film without effort, you probably have some sensibility that is necessary to enjoy it, more than I did.

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  Chizuko's Younger Sister 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Aug 2024

  Things to remember:

  -Mika's room: The way people wade through clutter covering every surface reminds me of some of Greenaway's sets. Like Smut's room in Drowning by numbers. Extremely messy but not dirty at all.

  -Chizuko's room: There is a laughing puppet that is triggered whenever the door is opened. None of the characters address it or seem annoyed, even when its laughing at Chizuko's memorial service. Maybe they are too used to it. Maybe the puppet is breaking the…

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  Carnival of Souls 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jul 2024

  To remember:

  -The silhouette of the abandoned bath house: After driving past the building at twilight, Mary later sees it in dream. This time we zoom straight through it to the lake with pylons sticking out of the water. The image of the lake isn’t scary by itself, but the sequence of arriving to it through the house gives it an intensity; It means that whatever we fear about the bath house is actually not inside it, but in the…

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  An Empty Dream 1965

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Apr 2023

  Things to remember:

  - The dentist clinic is a den of violence and eroticism, excess and ecstasy.
  - The pain of our teeth takes over the whole field of vision as a disembodied industrial saw, while the pain of others is composed into a pornographic display.
  - Set design straight from the cabinet of Caligari.
  - Something tending towards Lynch. Maybe the extended club song performance to a single patron who may or may not be the devil.
  - Lady is sensually fed a white flower, and subsequently gives birth to pair of black flowers.
  - The laziest beach/desert set ever
  - Dreamy score

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