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  Tetris 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2024

  That's why the Chinese call it Russian blocks (俄罗斯方块)

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  A Tale of the Wind 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2020

  In Une histoire de vent (1988), de laatste film van Joris Ivens, gaat de negentigjarige filmmaker naar China met het dwaze plan om de wind te filmen, die te temmen met zijn camera. Maar hoe kun je de wind filmen? In de film staat de wind symbool voor de stokkende levensadem van de astmatische Ivens, maar ook voor de storm die we vooruitgang noemen (een beeld van de filosoof Walter Benjamin). De reisimpressies vormen een portret van de kunstenaar als…

Popular reviews

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  Macbeth 1971

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Oct 2014 2

  Watching Macbeth it occurred to me that Polanski has made Polish films (The Knife in the Water, The Pianist), American films (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown), French films (Frantic, Venus in Fur) and British or English films (Macbeth, Tess, Oliver Twist). Some of the greatest directors (Lubitsch, Hitchcock, Kieślowski, Verhoeven) worked in two countries—Polanski worked in four.

  #hasiteveroccuredtoyou?

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  Play It Again, Sam 1972

  ★★★★ Rewatched 01 Sep 2014

  You have the most eyes I've ever seen on any person.

  Play It Again, Sam, written by Woody Allen and directed by Herbert Ross, is the missing link between the movies Allen made from Annie Hall onward and 'the early funny ones'.