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  Sparrow 2008

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Feb 2021

  To might have a better eye for bodies in motion than just about any director out there and he makes filmmaking seem near effortless here, so lean and light and breezy. There's not much more to this than style, but sometimes I guess just being really cool is actually enough.

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  The Woman Who Ran 2020

  ★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2021 1

  Still warming up to Hong, I think. So far I appreciate his films more than I love them, which is strange because I think I should feel more about the quiet intimacy and gaps between things that are said. I can't shake the feeling there's some inside... joke is not the right word, but something that's going over my head. I've liked each film more than the last though, so perhaps they'll continue to grow on me. This is by…

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  Mundane History 2009

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Jun 2018

  Leaves me breathless. The past and the future, the micro and macro, colliding in spectacular fashion. Mundane History frames every moment in time as something vital and important, the dizzying flow of experience - not just human experience but all experience - portrayed as one great, heaving, universal mass of being; this sheer, interconnected lump of existence within us and around us. The death of a star and the birth of a human child, separated by infinite distance and yet…

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  Typhoon Club 1985

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Jul 2020

  I can understand how someone could take away something liberating from Typhoon Club - there is something pure and unadulterated in the scene where the kids dance in the rain in their underwear - but I found the film more chilling than anything else in how it depicts a society with support structures on the point of collapse. Parents are completely absent from both frame and their childrens' lives, not a "welcome home" in sight, and what sources of authority…