Ishan

Ishan

Favorite films

  • A Moment of Innocence
  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Tampopo

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  • Woman in the Dunes

  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

  • La Llorona

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  • The Remains of the Day

    The Remains of the Day

    A fantastic demonstration of the stiff english upper lip which fails to utter a single word of kindness let alone love.

    An ode to the English ideals of honour and duty which form the straitjacket Mr Stevens can't escape.

    What a beautiful film to subtly weave a love story through a period drama. Mr Stevens, the faithful butler fully committed to his employer, completely fails to see the world and it's humans. With his quixotic sense of loyalty he is…

  • Songs from the Second Floor

    Songs from the Second Floor

    An utterly non-sensical film spawned from an even more non-sensical poem. A couple of amendments make the poem's lines more sensible.

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    Fucked be the ones who sit down to watch this.
    The person who goes, at the order of his hands, to this movie might as well get rid of his hands.
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    Songs from the Second Floor tries to emulate deadpan surreal of The Phantom of Liberty but only ends up an incoherent mess with jarring transitions.

    The…

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  • Belladonna of Sadness

    Belladonna of Sadness

    Is it a film? Is it an epileptic seizure? Is it a traumatic Beatles video?

    Something so utterly visual, so uncomfortably tragic and so discordantly symbolic is beyond mere explanation.

  • Liz and the Blue Bird

    Liz and the Blue Bird

    As the audience you must ask yourself the question, "Who is in the cage?". The film is not as simple as it first appears.

    The films drawing felt a little unusual from the start. It switches between the beautifully painted fairy tale of "Liz and the Blue Bird" and the muted colours of the classroom. While the characters in the fairy tale feel floaty and magical, in the Mizore and Nozomi seem weirdly dis-proportionate. Nozomi's long thin neck stuck with…