Favorite films

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  Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Oct 2024

  Duality is something in Twin Peaks that Lynch loves to return to over & over, whether it be black/white lodges, real/doppelgängers, light/darkness, good/evil, pasts & futures, dreams/reality, even in how he approaches small-town America in his works, where his affection & mistrust of the people in these surbarban towns are so woundly tied together. Some of these contrasts are more easier to live with others, For Cooper after his comeback in Part 16, there’s a belief in being able to get rid of…

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  Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 20 Aug 2021

  lonely people desperately trying to make connections online in the weird ways they only know how. what could be more sincere and empathetic than that.

Recent reviews

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  Margin Call 2011

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  The much better film about the financial crisis as there are no fourth-wall breaks, no cuts to Margot Robbie in a bath but just pure cynicism, apathy & greed dominating the atmosphere as those closer to the top of the ladder wrestle & come to terms with everything is about to fall apart from something that was never in front of them.

  Impending doom from “nothing” but will be felt in every way imaginable.

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  m.A.A.d 2014

  Watched 22 Feb 2025

  encapsulates so much of a city’s history and present-day through so many avenues I gladly stopped keeping track and let it wash over me. 

  you’d think an album like gkmc couldn’t get more any more evocative until sing about me starts playing and the first couple frames consists of entering a morgue.

Popular reviews

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  A City of Sadness 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Aug 2020

  Taiwanese new wave >>> French new wave cinema

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  A Confucian Confusion 1994

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Oct 2020 1

  "the best way to fight hypocrisy is not by death, but by living honestly!"

  one of my favourite screenplays and endings, ever. really impressed and loved in how yang was able to connect all these characters in this multi-layered narrative in their search and questions for authenticity & honesty and having to self-reflect in the emotions they'd display on their faces or their artistry, hypocrisy, pretentiousness, relationships and their professions. Think it's safe to say with having seen my 6th film of his, that edward yang is clear, as my favourite director. really hope this gets restored in the near future.