Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Arabian Nights 1974

  ★★★½ Watched 16 May 2020

  I really want to like this more. I found it the most achieved in the trilogy with its unique aesthetic that blends a roughness with the fantastic. Formally composed shots are captured by the shaky handheld camera, making the film like a documentation of a re-enacted fairy tale. The innonence and pleasure Pasolini was exploring are layered and complex. There’re even a few nice scenes concerning gaze and spectator. However I just still find it a bit hard to pass that oriental look.

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  Amateur 1994

  ★★★ Watched 24 Apr 2020

  Highlights:

  - Isabelle Huppert + Elina Lowensohn
  - MBV’s Only Shallow plays in the background in the video store porn tape renting scene
  - floppy disks

Popular reviews

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  I Cannot Tell You How I Feel 2016

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Nov 2019

  Q&A with Su Friedrich 
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  An audience commented on the effective choice of text instead of voice over, part of Friedrich’s response goes - “when you read a text you hear your own voice.”

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  India Song 1975

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jul 2019

  An interrogation of image/sound, stillness/moving image, interior/exterior, first person/third person, colonialist/colonized, and many other rich dichotomies in the room of mirror.