“I used to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone. I walked around for months talking to you. Now I don't know what to say. It was easier when I just imagined you. I even imagined you talking back to me. We'd have long conversations, the two of us. It was almost like you were there. I could hear you, I could see you, smell…
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In the Mood for Love 2000
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PREFACE: I wanted to acknowledge that his essay is perhaps the longest I’ve put to text regarding a film—or ever will. I’m a very guarded person. Trust was broken when I was a young boy and that’s had ripple effects throughout my life. More importantly, it’s style is a stream of consciousness, something I finished writing at 3AM, infused with a poetic sense of self that I can’t take back; lingering vulnerability. However, I also wanted to emulate the film…
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Rashomon 1950
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“It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.”
You know, I still remember the first time I saw Rashomon. I was sitting in my mom’s bedroom at fourteen-years-old, and on a ragged little laptop, I had illegally downloaded an absolute beautiful restoration. It was my very first film from Akira, who would become one of my heroes, like many aspiring filmmakers and cinephiles alike. It was one of my first foreign-language films, and…
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Freaks 1932
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“One of us! One of us!”
Few films have endured a fate as tragically triumphant as Tod Browning’s second-most famous horror experience. Vilified upon its release, slashed down from its original runtime, and effectively buried by MGM, Freaks has since been resurrected as one of the most daring works in cinema. More than a horror film, it is a deeply human story about cruelty, acceptance, and the very fine line between monstrosity and humanity. Its rejection upon release mirrors the…
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There Will Be Blood 2007
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“I’m finished”
There’s a biblical aspect outside of God in There Will Be Blood. Its title alone suggests an Old Testament prophecy: foreboding, violent, inevitable. Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic unfolds like a parable, charting the rise and fall of a man whose hunger for wealth and power ultimately consumes him. But unlike the traditional morality tales I was raised on, the film offers no redemption, no clear judgment from a higher authority. It is a film about a man who…
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Secrets & Lies 1996
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“Life isn't fair then is it. Somebody always draws the short straw.”
There’s something uniquely potent about watching a Mike Leigh film work out. The method where he and his actors build the characters together creates an almost voyeuristic authenticity, it’s like I’m intruding on real lives rather than watching a constructed story. Secrets & Lies is a masterpiece in this approach, a deeply humanistic film that makes you feel like a silent observer, the fly on the wall as decades…
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