samvining

samvining

Favorite films

  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Land and Freedom
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Blade Runner 2049

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  • A Touch of Zen

    ★★★★½

  • Audition

    ★★★½

  • Speed Racer

    ★★★★

  • All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★½

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  • Green Border

    Green Border

    ★★★★★

    a masterpiece and surely one of the most urgent, important and viscerally upsetting modern films.

    this film is not just about those suffering at the border between poland and belarus, but about the inherent violence and inhumanity of all borders, among our most evil creations. they must all be destroyed.

    i've seen a few people, on here and elsewhere, criticise this film by calling it some variation of "manipulative": those people are gutless cowards and racists. many negative comments are certainly from fascists, and some likely come directly from the polish government.

  • Nosferatu the Vampyre

    Nosferatu the Vampyre

    ★★★

    i had heard there are lots of rats in this film, but wow! so many rats.

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  • The Offence

    The Offence

    ★★★★

    tw: sexual assault, child abuse

    a bleak, bleak character study about a veteran cop whose compound trauma from years of exposure to death, suffering and brutality explodes in extreme violence and misogyny.

    Connery's performance is incredible here as he reveals to us the character's agony without ever becoming completely sympathetic.

    the brilliance of the script is in how it implicates a sort of patriarchal stoicism (perhaps even erected as a defense mechanism) as directly leading to an inability to process…

  • Misery

    Misery

    ★★★½

    wow kathy bates is great in this. loved lots of the little details: the typrewriter having no "n", annie being a nixon voter etc.

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