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Recent reviews

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  Taste of Cherry 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Dec 2023

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

  Kiarostami is really one of the great masters of cinema. 

  Taste of Cherry has so so much humanity in its 99 minute runtime. For such a depressing and desperate central theme and plot, this film is so bright and full of life. Kiarostami taps into Tarkovsky with the meditative photography of Iran’s landscapes. 

  Whenever Kiarostami starts with a car scene (as in Close-Up) you’re in for a masterpiece. 

  Screened on 35mm at the Metrograph Theatre in Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York. 

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  The Sacrifice 1986

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2023

  Another Tarkovsky Masterpiece

Popular reviews

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Nov 2023

  Screened at the Nitehawk Cinema - Prospect Park in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. 

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2023

  Screened on 70mm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in Brookline, Massachusetts.