Erkki Lindpere

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A late bloomer cinephile. See my Substack for film recommendations fourfilmsafortnight.substack.com/

Favorite films

  • Wings of Desire
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • Johnny Guitar
  • Stand by Me

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  • Shredder Orpheus

    ★★★½

  • Pillars of Society

    ★★★

  • The Girl from the Marsh Croft

    ★★★½

  • April, April!

    ★★★

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  • Wendy and Lucy

    Wendy and Lucy

    ★★★★★

    I’ve seen Wendy & Lucy around 3 times, but all before I started logging my movie watches and rating movies on Letterboxd around 2017.

    With this re-watch I’m trying to mark the end of an era of catching up with cinema history that I’ve missed. My way to do that was a bit obsessive, I set the 100% completion of certain lists as a target to chase. From the top of my head, this is what I completed:

    AFI 100
    Sight…

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  • Shredder Orpheus

    Shredder Orpheus

    ★★★½

    Continuing to explore newer expressionist movies.

  • April, April!

    April, April!

    ★★★

    Not a bad comedy, but a few times it happens that there is a funny situation building that resolves immediately in a trivial unfunny way. Later it becomes something more complex, but time was wasted making it not funny.

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  • A Farmer in Montfaucon

    A Farmer in Montfaucon

    I'm to the point where I watch every Éric Rohmer movie I can.

  • Fire of Love

    Fire of Love

    ★★★★

    I didn’t expect to be actually moved by this film, but I was. I have difficulty putting into words exactly what I think, but IMHO this movie made the right choice to focus on mood, images and fragments rather than attempt to tell a great human scale story when one character is 4 billion years old.