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  A Moment of Innocence 1996

  ★★★★★ Added

  this movie sings the song of its own creation by which i mean it is a movie made up of reenactments of the making of the movie which isn't like necessarily out there for iranian cinema as far as i can tell it's just that makhmalbaf is idiosyncratic and like never learned how to read music so he just plays by ear. additionally, his story--as in the story of his youth that is being retold here--is bad ass. it's easy…

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  The Gardener 2012

  ★★★½ Added

  i watched THE GARDENER - by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (With Subtitles - باغبان ساخته محسن مخملباف ) which was this like low key makhmalbaf doc where he talks to some goofy bahais but that portion of the movie basically just serves as a veneer for this dostoevskyan fable where makhmalbaf has "faith" and his son is "errant" but the fact that it fits that dichotomy so neatly makes you wonder if makhmalbaf is maybe having one over on us for the…

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  Patriotism 1966

  ★★★★ Added

  i watched yukio mishima's patriotism: the rite of love and death (1966). the movie is 27 minutes long, has only two characters, and is extremely straightforward: mishima is an imperial palace guard, his buddies attempt a coup of the japanese government in an attempt to restore power to the emperor (much as mishima did irl four years later), he doesn't want to snitch on them nor kill them so he decides to commit suicide (much as he did irl four…

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  Lancelot of the Lake 1974

  ★★★★ Added

  this is probably my favorite movie set in the middle ages if only because it gets the vibe so right. like it's just dudes in super loud armor and tights wandering around the forest and getting decapitated in swamps and trying to hold their guts in but bresson refuses to show any action and relies entirely on his own assumption that you can imagine a bad ass medieval battle so like it'll be like hon hon hon bonjour we're off…

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