Jan Kittler

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Favorite films

  • Blue Velvet
  • The Apartment
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Heat

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  • Ran

    ★★★★

  • Cybernetic Grandma

    ★★★½

  • Fruit of Paradise

    ★★★★

  • Fair Play

    ★★½

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  • Ran

    Ran

    ★★★★

    Could've gone easily higher for me in terms of rating, but right now, it was incredible, not the best Kurosawa I've seen. Ran is a Shakespearean succession drama about war, violence, greed, hate. Incredibly ambitious with its classical story structure, but also momentarily lukewarm — this was the only thing holding this watching experience back for me — at the cause of it not being the tightest script, I think.
    Obviously, a stunning photography. Not only the crisp colors and…

  • Fruit of Paradise

    Fruit of Paradise

    ★★★★

    Some stuff I didn't catch on the first time.

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  • Pilots

    Pilots

    ★★

    Yeah, hehe... yeah...
    40 years forward: this is getting released by Criterion in the 'Borislow Shorts' boxset.

  • Waves

    Waves

    ★★★

    Chases being a contemporary drama that could compete on an international level. The fast edit almost seems like it's trying to capture the intensity of Nolan. It uses archive footage to add dimension to the documentation of history, cinematography also changes material — although pretty randomly; it looks as if they wanted to shoot it on celluloid but ran out of money. It's just very loud with its presentation of a message that's… dull.
    I think I'm just picky these…