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  Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023

  Watched 07 Jul 2023

  Fell asleep halfway :(

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Mar 2023

  Beautiful writing, beautiful cinematography.
  Made me think of Salinger’s ‘A perfect day for Bananafish’.
  No movie has made me feel closer to childhood.

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  The Eternal Daughter 2022

  ½ Watched 10 Oct 2022

  Sitting through this film is what I imagine purgatory to feel like. 
  Eternal daughter? More like Eternal BOREDOM!!
  The director talked about how she didn’t have a set script or dialogue and how she just came up with everything on the spot. 
  I could tell, 80% of the film was Tilda walking through the garden with her dog and muttering “oh darling” in a stupid British accent.  You can’t just rely on pretty scenery and good acting to make a movie. Lazy filmmaking, no wonder this took her 20 years to make. 20 years and not one script??
  Sorry Tilda

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  Stardust Memories 1980

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Aug 2022 2

  There is a dualism inside Woody about his work. ‘Should I aim for realism? Or just useless jokes? How do I decide what to do? Does the public decide for me? Do I need an almost “metaphysical” sense in order to make something?’ The whole film represents this dualism- it is not a realistic movie neither a funny one. The funny scenes are working against the serious ones, and vice versa.
  He takes the same approach when answering the bigger…

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