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  The Son of a Herder

  ★★★★½ Watched by Carlo Winiger 11 Sep 2022

  Logged as a proxy for the documentary Exiltibeter zwischen zwei Kulturen (CH 1986, Vadim Jendreyko & Tashi Tsering), which unfortunately cannot be found on Letterboxd.

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  Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971

  ★★★★ Watched by Carlo Winiger 26 Jun 2022

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

  40 minutes in: Damn, this has such a surprisingly nice, optimistic, feel-good tone to it, maybe this time around the ending won't be all bleak and sad and -

  90 minutes in: Nevermind 😥

Popular reviews

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  The Green Knight 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched by Carlo Winiger 29 Jul 2021 4

  Since the teaser came out a year and a half ago, I was so hyped for this movie that I was already starting to worry that it could only disappoint me because my expectations were growing so high.

  It didn't disappoint me in the slightest. If - like me before going to the cinema - you expect a mixture of A Ghost Story and The VVitch that fits perfectly into that wonderful niche between arthouse thinkpiece and Hollywood blockbuster usually…

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  The Last Samurai 2003

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Carlo Winiger 19 Jul 2020

  I adored this movie when I was 12 years old. It was one of the first R-rated movies I was allowed to watch, and I used to secretly show some of the battle scenes to my younger brother.

  Although I dislike some plot points today (like the unnecessary hinted-at love story), I am still in love with its way of storytelling and its visual splendor. The calm scenes are almost meditative and gorgeous to look at, the action is Braveheart-level…