Spellbinding. Kanno teeters between dreams and reality with a deadly precision, heightening Kazama’s magnificent face acting to immense temptation. The penetration of the vulva is a stage, and the edit heightens this physical impact like nails sinking into the skin, cutting moans into seagull gawks, fistfights into lip bites, blood spurts into pleasure screams. The coexistence of eros and massacre until it is clearly spelt and spilt over the land of the rising sun. Elated to have spent my Tokyo trip watching 80’s pinku, albeit seeing it with no subtitles.
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A Night We Held Between 2024
If literature is the closest we’ll ever get to hearing each other’s thoughts, then cinema is the closest we’ll ever get to seeing each other’s imagination. Visions of a world at war, of frames painted from longing, of sound extracted from pain. The whispers of humanity clawing for light. The ritual as prayer, wishes vying for life. The milk & honey pastels of Abbas Kiarostami’s lush, vivid framing early in his career lends itself well to Kyle Edward Ball’s analog horror inclinations. Tearing up at the seams.
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Cleaners 2019
Glenn Barit's Cleaners, one of the most inventive films in recent memory, completely reinvigorates Philippine cinema, and presents a world for these teenagers that is hopeful, in that their youthful vigor and restless optimism is bigger than any dire challenges they might face. Cleaners is much more than its gimmick, these highlighted photocopied stills perfectly capture the essence of a fading memory, symbolic of a time that passed, these highlights representing our selves. These are the memories that made us,…
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Dreaming a Whole Life 2011
tfw you just watched a whole short film in 1 tiktok you saw on your for you page
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