Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Brighter Summer Day 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2024

  Watched at the Close-Up cinema with Hassan, Francis and Mindy.

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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 26 Nov 2023

  Watched the 4k remaster at the Prince Charles Cinema.

Popular reviews

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  Fireworks 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Dec 2020 5

  Takeshi Kitano stars in, directs and edits this masterpiece film which also features many of his own paintings. I cannot think of many films that embody the auteur mentality quite as well as Fireworks (Hana-Bi). The film offers a really unique blend of crime drama, brutal action, romance, gangster, comedy and melodrama tropes which come together seamlessly. Further, the film almost dips into surrealism with the painting sequences in a really touching and meaningful way. Kitano himself is a very strong screen…

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  Bullet in the Head 1990

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Jun 2021

  John Woo’s masterpiece Bullet in the Head is not so much about action set pieces and heroic police/gangster characters as his other work from this time in his career, but really a film that examines extreme violence (physical and emotional) as well as friendship to create an overwhelming and traumatic experience. There are also at least several scenes that are amongst the most dramatically powerful and dark that I have ever seen in cinema, which really cements Bullet in the…

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