ChowYunFat

ChowYunFat

Favorite films

  • 12 Angry Men
  • All About Lily Chou-Chou
  • Hard Boiled
  • Fireworks

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  • The Truman Show

    ★★★

  • 20 Days in Mariupol

    ★★★★½

  • Look Back

    ★★★

  • Fritz the Cat

    ★★★½

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  • Look Back

    Look Back

    ★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Kamikaze Taxi

    Kamikaze Taxi

    ★★★★

    Watched the original cut. Was previously thinking about checking the international cut first because it was the one I could find in HD. Now having watched the full 2 hours and 50 minutes, I can't think of any significantly good reasons to cut any scenes to trim it down to 2 hours and 20 minutes, and still well worth watching despite the standard definition quality at best.

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  • U.F.O.

    U.F.O.

    ★★★½

    Did not think an album by Sadesper Record called "A Sort of Sound Track for U.F.O." was a soundtrack for an actual movie. I thought it was just for an imaginary film, like the albums of Boris' "Mabuta No Ura" or Diabolical Masquerade's "Death's Design"

    The initial premise is a thief meeting an eccentric and mysterious girl, who follows him after he robbed her home. There's an allegory later in the middle that tries to explain the significance between the…

  • Flic

    Flic

    ★★★★½

    A psychological film surrounding a mentally questionable detective, along with the unreliability of the truth between his wife's death and a separate murder case. As said before in my previous review, it's filmed with plenty of static or slowly moving wide shots, only breaking this routine when necessary. Further complimented by many long takes and a very slow pace to make a very immersive viewing.

    Still took me about an hour to really get into it despite rewatching with highly…

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