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  Memories of Matsuko 2006

  Rewatched 25 Mar 2025

  this movie made me cry for about a quarter of its runtime on this watch, and I’m not totally sure why!!! not sure how much to attribute to “this is a really great and emotionally effecting movie” and “this is probably a sign i need to go back to therapy”!!!!

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  The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006

  Watched 09 Mar 2025

  absolutely love the baffling decision to style the teacher as a stereotypical yakuza thug for the purpose of enabling a single joke that happens in overlapping background dialogue

  incredibly interesting visual work from madhouse on display here; it’s an awkward exploratory blend of cel animation, digipaint, and CGI that winds up erasing many of the distinctive traits that we’ve come to associate with each. it’s a look that can really only come from that short window of time where digital…

Popular reviews

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  Nowhere 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Oct 2023 1

  got to see the new restoration of this at my local theater. fucking transformative. my only regret is that i wasn’t on more drugs

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  Nosferatu 2024

  Watched 26 Dec 2024

  why was he surprised when he opened the coffin and there was a corpse. that’s what’s supposed to be in coffins