Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Withnail & I 1987

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Feb 2025

  “As a youth I used to weep in butchers shops”
  “I feel unusual”
  “Monty you terrible cunt!”
  “I think the carrot infinitely more fascinating than the geranium. The carrot has mystery. Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees”
  “We’ve come on holiday by mistake!”
  “It is the most shattering experience of a young man’s life when one morning he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself ‘I will never play the Dane’. When that moment comes, one’s ambition ceases”…

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  Love Actually 2003

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  “Eight is a lot of legs, David”

Popular reviews

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  The River 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2024

  Screening at The Garden Cinema followed by in person Q&A with Lee Kang-Sheng

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Feb 2024 3

  Wonderful, heartbreaking, uplifting film. 

  Extra half star for getting to see and (kind of) meet Wim Wenders and Koji Yakusho at this preview screening… left me a little starstruck…