Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Storm Riders 1998

  ★★½ Watched 26 May 2021

  kristy yang telling aaron kwok she can still see him even though she's married to ekin cheng i know had the girlies coughing blood.

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  Fantasia 2004

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2016

  Wai Ka-Fai’s period comedy, Fantasia, set in 1970s Hong Kong reminded me of Jeff Lau’s own period comedy revisionism, the 1960's homage, 92 Legendary La Rose Noire and Pang Ho-Cheung’s You Shoot, I Shoot for the sheer absurdity that exists in the worlds of the aforementioned films. They also share the same filmmaking that emphasizes visceral and often nonsensical comedy that follow unstructured or non-existent plot lines; let alone, one will usually find themselves amusingly alienated or bemused by the…

Popular reviews

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  Cruel Story of Youth 1960

  ★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2014 6

  File this under me being boring (again): I can never get into or stomach films that use/portray misogyny as a mediator to find truths (I hate to be that guy, but I'm that guy) but I understand Nagisa Ôshima's claim, here, vis-à-vis with the subject as he sees it as a disposition that stems from his characters’ maladaptive coping mechanisms. Succinctly, Ôshima directly places his characters in combat with the famous historical change in Japan (especially, his young delinquents’ relation…

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  Keep Cool 1997

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Feb 2014 4

  Zhang Yimou’s inventiveness in this film calls for a test of patience and tolerance; how far your concentration can last before you (are made to) succumb to (your) agoraphobia, as Zhang’s disillusions, realizes, urban modernity in (90’s) China. His direction supposedly matching the kinetics of living in this period of time; ever-so intrusive as his camera free-roams alienating individuals in any way possible; in which, Zhang’s characters would also begin to replicate this tendency. For a considerable period of time,…