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  Nostos: The Return 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Aug 2021

  Looking back
  With gratitude
  Looking back
  With longing
  Looking back
  When there is no looking forward
  Or no forward to look to
  A suffering inseperable from the longing to return
  To return to a place long ago buried,
  In memory untouched, evoked in touch, taste, sight, sound
  Cast out, to cross the loneliest ocean
  Receding, receding, receding
  With the winds breath on the nape of your neck
  And the creak of a ship or a raft or a life
  Coming…

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  The Swimmer 1968

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 30 Jul 2021

  Noble and Splendid.

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  Cries and Whispers 1972

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2020

  We are often so lost in our own suffering that we scarcely notice the plagues of sorrow which gather outside the periphery of our being, deafened by the infinite whispers of our own neuroses. A film both intimate and distant, shapeless but tightly coiled around so many achingly fantastic performances. Visually it's a feast for the eyes, with vivid colours (namely deep red) which further heighten the scoulding emotional intensity. An intensity which lingers in the hue of each and…

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  Seven Samurai 1954

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Jun 2020

  The high watermark for action epics, this is staggeringly good and so much fun too! Three and a half hours felt like two and a quarter.

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