Jack Chakerian

Jack Chakerian

Favorite films

  • Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • My Dinner with Andre
  • Dead Man
  • August in the Water

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  • Guilty of Romance

    ★★★★

  • True Adolescents

  • Late Autumn

  • Outside In

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  • Late Autumn

    Late Autumn

    Very interesting — color and fogginess is just how I'd been thinking about shooting this area — got more abnormal than I'd expected, and I'm grateful for this — nice seeing Pike Place and Seattle so well shot — and a brief shot of Gig Harbor!

  • Old Joy

    Old Joy

    What a perfect gem of a film. So PNW. So funny and sad in the same exact moments.

    Sorrow is nothing but worn out joy.

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  • Perfect Days

    Perfect Days

    ★★★★★

    Don't watch this in theaters, unless you have a big cold drink.

    One of the rare gems of cinema that has you meet it halfway and leaves you in a walking daze, transformed.

    Low-key spoilers below (nothing drastic. Just low-key)

    Tone. Yin. Wenders begins and ends (watch to the end of the credits) mentioning komorebi, the more concrete, cinematic equivalent of 'ichi-go ichi-e' that every moment is unique and can never be experienced twice, as it never occurs in exactly…

  • Winter Light

    Winter Light

    ★★★★

    Watching this on the big screen was my favorite Bergman viewing Experience to date. I'm enjoying simplicity in films more and more these days, it's not easy to achieve: The organization of each frame into few different elements. That it happens in one day. Mostly inside churches.

    Best I've seen of Sydow so far, mostly just in how he listens.

    Bookmarking a random thought... going to church is similar to going to the cinema: You sit with an audience in…

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