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  Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Mar 2025

  this was my second time watching this film. this time i noticed how instantly you understand yourself to be watching jeanne dielman’s routine. her way of moving casts routine into every gesture: the sharpness, decisiveness, everything set back in its place as soon as it is out of use. this remarkable body schema of hers is what seems to close the gap between real time—less than 2 days of a woman’s life—and cinematic time: we feel like we have been…

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  In the Mood for Love 2000

  ★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2025

  this is a movie about longing NOT love. loved the last scene which has no other pretenses

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  Persona 1966

  Watched 29 Jan 2025

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  Vertigo 1958

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2025 1

  obsessed with the shift between the first and second act of this film, a transformation that has to do with the coordination of fantasy, genre, class, and the way that class interacts with our perceptions of historical time. judy is gorgeously modern because she’s lowbrow, like the green neon light saturating her hotel room. john’s insistence on repeating the fantasy of the first act within this different genre/era becomes the new engine of horror in the film: his compulsion replaces the hacky ancestral curse while retaining its sense of malevolence and ineluctable destruction!

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