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  Evolution 2015

  Watched 15 Feb 2025

  it felt like a student film. and unfortunately in this case i mean that in a bad way.

  (though "felt like a student film" is of course not necessarily always an insult)

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  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010

  Rewatched 25 Mar 2025

  how do you just like .. make this. like. how do you just like, bring this into existence. how is this real ... how does this kind of evocation of the human, ecological, conscious condition exist. apichatpong weerasethakul, they tell us. i personally think this is a conspiracy. this kind of perfection can surely only be achieved through some kind of divinity .. !

  there are of course no words for how brilliant this is. it is unbounded. that is…

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  The Mouth Agape 1974

  Watched 30 Jan 2025

  the penultimate shot HURT me. it is so unexpected and so brutal. and yet Pialat doesn't get swept away in the cinematic whimsy of ending on that. it would, in another film, by another director, be the perfect way to end the film. but no. not for Pialat. he returns to the material truth of things, to the core of his film, for one last unrelenting look.

  maurice pialat i am obsessed with you!!!

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  Dont Look Back 1967

  Watched 17 Jan 2025 2

  oh wow !!!!! documentary-making at its finest ! such a curious gaze

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