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  • Pastoral: To Die in the Country
  • Palms
  • Céline and Julie Go Boating
  • The Color of Pomegranates

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  • Far from Home

    ★★★★

  • Ikiru

    ★★★★

  • The Life of Oharu

    ★★★★

  • Sanrizuka: Heta Village

    ★★★★

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  • Sanrizuka: Heta Village

    Sanrizuka: Heta Village

    ★★★★

    when we talk of this documentary being the antithesis of a 'spectacle', as if it were some situationist flick, are we secretly admitting that the pacing invited some boredom? we can't but help the aesthetic programming of the world today, so one may as well be honest.

    although we are, of course, intelligent enough to realise that things have value beyond their being endorphinically thrilling and that this documentary is terribly, perhaps hauntingly, important beyond being merely informative—it's a part of the experiences to be spun through tales of heta village during its final epoch.

  • Sanrizuka: Peasants of the Second Fortress

    Sanrizuka: Peasants of the Second Fortress

    ★★★★

    not just a depiction of a shared consciousness but a constituent, and a petrified remnant, of that fleeting perpetuity. one's experience in resisting the force of uprooting, i.e. the whims of Power, appears to be key in having cemented the unity between student and peasant, which is reflected in a shift regarding the character of language used by the peasantry from 'summer in narita' to 'peasants of the second fortress' (from 1968 to 1971).

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  • Taste of Cherry

    Taste of Cherry

    ★★★★½

    nectared curiosity serves me as juice from a mulberry. it is my will to life and the bondage from which i will be absolved through death—this is my heraclitan resolve. an auspicious ledge on life leaves gaps in reality for to accommodate such curiosity, lest all art seem anathema and all critique blotched or suspended in a crystalline implausibility. a world that is too certain of itself creates conditions that cause the wilting of culture and is thus placed at…

  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    ★★★★

    weerasethakul once more showcases a profound, and by now refined, sensitivity to the notion of folklore as rendered through his familiarly contemplative style of filmmaking. we break the bread of unalloyed wonder and, if one forgoes any positivist preconceptions, are treated to a beautied meditation on the relationship between mythos and mortality.

    one mustn't take 'reality' for granted.

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