Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Kwaidan 1964

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  The way Kobayashi's films move through visual and aural spaces must surely be the closest film can get to music 💯

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  The Substance 2024

  Watched 09 Nov 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  A Brighter Summer Day 1991

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Aug 2020

  It's no hyperbole to say Edward Yang painted life on screen. Every frame is immaculately composed and thanks to criterion collection for making this restoration available. It's epic in its scope yet very intimate in Yang's own style. The use of no background score also helps keep the intimacy and realism of the film.
  Despite its 4 hour long runtime, it didn't feel long at all. That is how much we are immersed into the characters and the world.
  Another aspect to the film's credit is how it manages to be not confusing even with very little exposition.

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  Happy Hour 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2020

  I honestly didn't know how time flew despite its long runtime. The director, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, invests us in the lives of these four women in a very detailed and nuanced way. There are no easy solutions and conventional "emotional scenes" but one can feel the emotions throughout. Watching if felt like reading a Haruki murakami's novel with letting the mystery dissolve in reality. Though, the film's style is far from realism. It requires a great bit of precision to do…

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