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  Romeo + Juliet 1996

  Rewatched 02 Jan 1997

  7th viewing

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  On-Gaku: Our Sound 2019

  Watched 12 Jan 2022

  If one is familiar with Kenji Iwaisawa's very expressive short works, it's easy to enter into this film and sense a great deal of his artistry is missing, particularly the very detailed work of texture, variety of medium (pencil, ink, paint, etc), although as the narrative plays out it becomes apparent this is partially restrain as well as an evocation of character expression.

  What is immediately presented as an animation style seems to take more from 1990s Mike Judge than…

Popular reviews

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  Interstellar 2014

  Watched 29 Dec 2014 2

  It is ironically unfortunate that Interstellar has, itself, become a black hole that has consumed a great deal of effort and philosophy that does not yield the promised intentions and has, coincidentally, demonstrated a less-than-effective (or efficient) use of ‘time’ than his referential sci-fi predecessors. None-the-less, the picture does illustrate some interesting contemporary tendencies within the genre, which will hopefully incite and inspire the future, which is perhaps the only way in which Nolan’s ideologies are consistent in this vision.…

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  The Wonder Ring 1955

  Watched 17 Dec 2012

  Brakhage demonstrates an incredible ability to observe and illustrate moments in which modernist materialism reveals reflections of a transient spirituality, one that is perhaps incapable of merging multiple planes that exist for only fleeting moments. It's capture is perhaps the closest that Brakhage's gotten to spirit-photography.

  Incredibly, the work also illustrates Brakage's superior ability to observe reality mirroring cinema via the naturally emerging multiple frames and cross fades due to light's inexplicable interaction with glass. Such an incredibly revelatory concept of cinema, a train's glass pane.