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  Yumeji 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2024

  Some unforgettable images here. One of the finest integrations of painting and its many aspects into film that I’ve seen. And an incredible score to boot.

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  Kagero-za 1981

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Jan 2024

  Crash cutting from the naked doll to our guy doing high kneed sprints down the railroad tracks fucking killed me. More unwieldy and opaque than the previous film in the trilogy, this was an entrancing experience with a magnificent and baffling finale.

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  Ride Lonesome 1959

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Feb 2022

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

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  Zigeunerweisen 1980

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2024

  An eerie, captivating, distressing puzzle box that doesn’t fully reveal itself except in the harmony of its images and tones. The repeated and altered scenes that follow their internal logic, sequences that oscillate between memory and dream, contribute to what was an oddly whole experience for me. It’s complete, even if incomprehensible. The performances are perplexing, but visceral as they should be; conduits of those urges and emotions that can rarely be effectively portrayed outside this heightened form (envy/jealousy, lust,…

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