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  • Yi Yi
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Uncut Gems
  • Lost Highway

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  • Lost Highway

    ★★★★★

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★★½

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    ★★★★★

  • Missing Johnny

    ★★★★★

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  • Missing Johnny

    Missing Johnny

    ★★★★★

    Loneliness is a hell of a disease—invisible, pervasive, and soul-crushing. Nobody wants to be alone; we are social creatures, profoundly complex beings who long for connection. So are birds. And fish. Maybe raindrops that create ripples yearning to connect with one another?

    Missing Johnny is a minimalistic yet extraordinary portrait of individuals caught in different circumstances, all battling this affliction. Every character is lonely, isolated, or estranged—not due to malice or personal choice, but as if they’ve simply contracted it.…

  • Oasis

    Oasis

    ★★★★★

    I owe most, if not all, of my appreciation and love for cinema to Dr. Gilbert Yeoh — a senior lecturer at my university's English department who possesses a passion for cinema so fervent that in a stuffy lecture theatre, only he could get excited about the lost eight-hour cut (!) of 1924 silent psychological drama Greed. The motif of circles in Psycho. The unbearably long takes of an empty theatre hall in Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    “Great Cinema evokes emotion,…

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  • Lost Highway

    Lost Highway

    ★★★★★

    cool cars, banger soundtrack, the most original and interesting story, masterful direction and stylistic flair, this is the Lynch everyone may not appreciate or love but definitely respects — the Lynchian madness will never die

    themes and how Lynch just SHOWS us wtf he’s cooking were so fucking cool too

    and don’t get me started on the absolute mindfuckery this film has/is like ¿!

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★½

    nosferatu fur coat auction when

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