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  Personal Shopper 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Apr 2017

  I'm not exactly sure what to make of Oliver Assayas' Personal Shopper. Normally, I don't like ghost stories, I find them silly. Is Personal Shopper a ghost story? Yes, it is. But is it just that? No. Assayas constantly subverts our expectations by setting the tone towards one direction and then effortlessly taking the other. This sure may unsettle many viewers(it did actually, the movie was booed at an initial screening, before it got a standing ovation at the official…

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  Endless Poetry 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Apr 2017

  Alejandro Jodorowsky is a genius. One of the greatest filmmakers alive, the verve and energy this 88 year old displays in his cinema even today will put some of the younger directors to shame.

  Endless Poetry is the most accessible Jodorowsky film I've seen, understandable considering it is the second film in a series of memoirs on his own life. His older son stars as his father and his younger son as young Jodorowsky, he shows the vagrant lifestyle of…

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  Days of Heaven 1978

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2017 1

  Y'know, it's an absolute pleasure to watch Terrence Malick evolve as a filmmaker over the years. Badlands was a strictly conventional work, but there was an aimlessness to its narrative and the characters that has been an inherent part of all his works. With Days of Heaven, it's apparent that he is trying to break free from the shackles of a conventional structure. The movie had a tough production as Malick found it difficult to connect the scenes together to…

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