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The Wild Goose Lake 2019
I don't rate this movie because this is middle of the road and forgettable but because I can't forget it due to some of its amazing qualities and for some of its less than stellar ones.
The movie is a master in mood. The lighting, setting, and cinematography all come together to paint a picture of a man on the run in poverty-stricken China. Some of the shots simply blew me away and the film looked great from start to…
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Tales of Beatrix Potter 1971
Ok, this film that is very much a performance is a pure delight. It truly makes me understand this world of mute, personified animals in a land of make-believe Victorian England. Very few things have given me an emotion of complete childhood longing as this plaything's pastoral has and that's exactly want one wants when watching the film. If only it was a tad shorter so that the movie doesn't feel slightly too much when it ends but rather as something that flew by but still has given us a feeling of fullness in terms of the style and effect.
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Yojimbo 1961
Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo is a western, there is no doubt about that. That's why it was so easy to make this into the American Western A Fistful of Dollars. There is even a showdown at noon in the middle of an empty town.
Yojimbo feels incredibly modern, there is a shocking amount of violence for a 1961 film, at least from an American perspective. But it works in showing the brutality of these two gangs and the destruction they have…
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