Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  O Seasons, O Castles 1958

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Autumnal dreams

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  Film 1965

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  👁️

  If you removed every image and memory, every record and reflection, of yourself, would you achieve the freedom of not being?

Popular reviews

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  Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Nov 2024 8

  THE RETURN OF THE FUCKING KING

  Additional thoughts: First of all, the Medicine Seller is so hot and so badass. I should just fill every slot of my four favorites with this movie poster so his face is everywhere. The animation style is enrapturing, almost overwhelming, and quite unique (as far as what I’ve seen). And beyond the thrilling action, I love how the Form, Truth, and Reason of the mononoke, which the Medicine Seller must seek, set the framework for a moving, personal story. Edo-period Japan has rarely been so gorgeously haunted!

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  A Well Spent Life 1971

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Make a lame man run
  Make a blind man see
  Baby, you're lookin' mighty good when you're truckin' with me
  Keep on truckin', mama, my blues away

  I fucking love that after Mance didn’t make it home one night for dinner, Elnora NEVER ate at the table again for like 50 years. That is some Count of Monte Cristo levels of grudge. “From this day on everybody got to eat for theirself.”

  This is a beautiful little documentary. The sequence about 30 minutes in set to “Keep On Truckin’” with the kids dancing and the hill and sky made me tear up.

  “Religion is a feelin.’”