Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Moonlight 2016

  ★★★★ Rewatched 25 Mar 2025

  “You the only man who’s ever touched me.”

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  Dersu Uzala 1975

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  “The town is not the mountain. Don’t you understand?”

  Brothers from two nearly separate paths of life intersect, permanently shifting each others lives. Civilization and nature personified, the scene of the Captain rushing through the woods to see Dersu again was an absolute highlight.

Popular reviews

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  Close-Up 1990

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  “It says the things I wish I could express.”

  Life holds up a mirror to cinema, and cinema holds one back.

  “What part would you like to play?”

  “My own.”

  “Haven’t you already done that?”

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  Still Walking 2008

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 26 Nov 2024

  “They say that butterflies that survive the winter come back yellow the following year.”