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  Patriotism 1966

  ★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  nauseatingly beautiful harakiri sequence but mishima's prose just blows this out of the water. i can get behind his minimalist vision for this short (noh theater style really fits) but upon execution mishima unfortunately loses a lot of the substance that made the original short story so great.

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  Edvard Munch 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Started crying involuntarily about an hour in. I really want to watch this one over and over again and revisit some of the montages/write a more polished review maybe because Edvard Munch genuinely was just that good.

  I will say this for now: Watkins does a great job of avoiding an unbearably subjective account of Edvard Munch and his intensely subjective philosophy. The cinematic portrait of the artist is instead painted from the periphery inwards--Edvard Munch is nothing at all like At Eternity's Gate and I can appreciate that. Bergman was right honestly.

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  Nowhere 1997

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Dec 2024

  would rate this less honestly (given that a lot of the scenes didn't do much for me) but i have to say--

  1) interior visuals were a massive highlight bart's room especially
  2) 1-800 sequence is killer 
  3) i really do have a soft spot for anything teen hedonism

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  Moonlight 2016

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Feb 2024

  Coming back to this movie for a film class, specifically with the prompt to keep in mind the way the characters look at each other--and god really paying attention to that added so much on the second viewing. Everything you need to know about Chiron can be found in his eyes--they just hold so much depth and vulnerability and sorrow and yearning that you (especially in the third act, in the diner) can almost feel them bursting at the edges…

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