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  Children of the Stones 1977

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  theodolite-consciousness: surveying the soulscape 🌎👁️‍🗨️

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  In a Year with 13 Moons 1978

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025 2

  saw @ anthology film archives. probably the grimmest Fassbinder I've seen yet (except maybe The Merchant of Four Seasons, which is so grim as to be comedic). the slaughterhouse scene near the opening visibly distressed the audience, a few people squirming in their seats, shying their eyes away. but what a scene!—gushing buckets of blood spilling from the half-severed heads of these cows sentenced to the most mechanical brutality, while Volker Spengler delivers this rabid monologue from Goethe's Torquato Tasso.…

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  The Crazy Family 1984

  ★★★ Watched 21 Apr 2024

  less than the sum of its parts. lots of nice images, ideas, and performances that don’t ever cohere into something too impressive. the anarchic pacing is sustained from beginning to end, but i’ve always struggled with films like that—it seems when everything is cranked to such a fever pitch there’s a sense of leveling, everything equally raised to the nth degree and because of that of equal weight and import. idk, it gets boring/exhausting to me. very diff from the…

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