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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets 1971
A showcase of the Japanese youth (while also focusing on the generation that is slowly fading away) from 50 years ago. An angry explosion that demands to be heard. A film attempting to break the basics of its medium while idolizing the vulgarity and madness of the youth. A group of people who have been cast aside by society and are too unfortunate to make it out. A psychosexual experience powered by punk music and frenzied visuals. This film's title…
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Blue 1993
One of the most devastating films I have seen in a while. Genuinely hard to stare at the screen even though it is quite literally just blue. I felt like I was looking into something forbidden, that I shouldn't be observing into Derek Jarman's life. The soundtrack makes the whole thing even more unnerving too, just a scary combination of poetic dialogue from a man who knows he's about to die and music that makes you feel like you're stuck…
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The Thin Red Line 1998
I don't write about movies anymore but I feel like this one deserves it. This has the best cinematography I have seen in a war film, to the point where I feel confident in saying this is the first war film I've seen that's just... beautiful. The camera just feels like this main entity the entire time that makes you glued into the screen seeing how the events slowly unfold and how they affect these men. The documentary-like approach for…
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Yi Yi 2000
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"Few things in life are as simple as one and twos." -Edward Yang
Watching this a second time after almost 7 months of my initial viewing made me remember how big yet somewhat simple this film is. It's a nearly 3 hour movie about a middle class family and their experiences with life in Taiwan, which obviously comes off as simple if you haven't watched the film, but it becomes obvious why this is the highest rated film of the…
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