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  • The Forbidden Room

    ★★★★

  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

    ★★★★★

  • Persona

    ★★★★★

  • A Place in the Sun

    ★★★★★

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  • The Forbidden Room

    The Forbidden Room

    ★★★★

    A very fantastic film of wonderments and a dreamlike trance state unlike any film I know of. It is liberating to see that art can be found in cinema still, that enthralls the playful and the humorous in a way that is ominous. How rare it is to see such innocent playfulness put on a pedestal.

  • Persona

    Persona

    ★★★★★

    Perfect semblance of self and inner voice. The conflict of conversing through relations and trust, and a bow to our inner turmoil as an impetus for our dissonance in interacting with others. One of my favorite uses of film as a temporal and textural medium to book end the film metaphorically, and particular dialogue experiments jn the third act.

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  • A Place in the Sun

    A Place in the Sun

    ★★★★★

    One of my favorite films. Love and lust, true self and idealized self, misfortune of loves inevitable conundrum where perfection in so being attained forges chaos in her wake.

  • Knife in the Water

    Knife in the Water

    ★★★★★

    How simple a story to leave us with such a perplexing thought. What alluring title to make us expect the worse but then twist our expectations of fate into a choice of fortunes path.

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