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Favorite films

  • Ran
  • La Strada
  • Monster
  • Memories of Murder

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  • The Empire Strikes Back

    ★★★★★

  • Star Wars

    ★★★★★

  • Big Take

    ★★½

  • The Cook

    ★★

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  • The Ascent

    The Ascent

    ★★★★★

    One of the greatest Soviet films ever made.

  • The Magician

    The Magician

    ★★★★

    The magician is ultimately a meditation on the nature of art itself and our desire to be enraptured by facade. It isnt as riveting as Bergman’s best work but it’s still a very prescient movie and arguably one of Bergman’s most technically impressive feats of story telling.

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★

    There’s a tendency latent in contemporary cinema to make everything epic in scope, to tell a grand and ambitious narrative, and to sacrifice the subtleties of a humble yet absorbing and grounded storytelling. 

    I wanted to like nosferatu, quite desperately Infact. But the irony is that the film embodies the very excesses of modernity it chastises.  A sea of replaceable moments follow one another, populated by forgettable and robotic characters, and not even the charming and energetic performance from William…

  • Inception

    Inception

    ★★★★★

    A+ 


    Holy fuck. Yea I didn’t understand everything in this movie, might have to watch it again but it blew my mind. The film is so complex yet feels human and intimate and it’s so thought provoking! The performances across the board are fantastic from Leonardo di caprio, Elliot page, joseph Gordon levitt, Tom hardy and Cillian Murphy and each character feels fleshed out and interesting in their own unique ways. 

    Inception isn’t just an amazing sci fi movie, it’s…

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