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  • Close Your Eyes

  • India Song

  • Hard Truths

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  • Kaili Blues

    Kaili Blues

    ★★★★★

    absolutely flabbergasted by this film. I'm going to watch it again in a week.

  • The Fall Guy

    The Fall Guy

    ★★★

    the love story in these kinds of movies always feels like such a punt. enjoyable movie in the same way that a pork rind is an enjoyable snack. that's not a diss.

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  • Blue

    Blue

    ★★★★★

    In undergrad, I watched this film as part of a SUBVERSIVE FILM AS ART course, and let me tell you: I was incensed by it. Embittered. I felt it was the epitome of a recently disabled person making grand statements about disability. As the closing credits rolled, I threw the book I had been reading at the screen in anger and stormed out. The book was Albert Camus' The Rebel. Not relevant, but a fun coincidence. My professor in that…

  • The Spirit of the Beehive

    The Spirit of the Beehive

    ★★★★★

    I can't give this film high enough praise.
    it feels like a perfect film, but not such that it is encased in glass.
    it's fully alive.
    all of the motifs hit hard.
    there is a perfect calibration of details included and details excluded.
    it rhymes across decades of history.
    it enlightened me to a historical period I didn't have a full appreciation of.
    the technique is winsome, subtle, perfectly supporting the themes.
    it feels brilliant as you watch it, and…

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