ian

*weyes blood voice* i love movies

writing for sight & sound, the baffler, artreview, etc!

Favorite films

  • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
  • Make Way for Tomorrow
  • The Eternal Breasts
  • Farewell My Concubine

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  • Eight Taels of Gold

    ★★★★

  • Still Here

    ★★★★

  • Every Grain of Rice

    ★★★½

  • Chicago

    ★★★★

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  • Kiki's Delivery Service

    Kiki's Delivery Service

    ★★★★★

    great film about how profoundly lonely it is to be a teenager

  • Titanic

    Titanic

    ★★★★★

    when i was about 12 i went to new york for the first (and so far only) time, and we went to the museum of moving image in queens. there are lots of little details from this visit that i remember (like seeing the prop of linda blair from the exorcist and being so scared that when i went out into the hallway i thought i was going to be murdered lol) but the thing that stands out the most…

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  • Orphan

    Orphan

    ★★★

    extreme close-up of vera farmiga's laptop as she googles "CHILDREN WHO KILL"

  • Wintermelon

    Wintermelon

    ★★★★

    every diaspora film should feature extensive home video footage of the filmmaker's mum doting on them as a child. this is my artistic philosophy

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★½

    i think it's maybe worth saying that this film had me on the verge of tears within the first few scenes and at some point in the last half hour i was basically weeping. i'm weak to any kind of sentimental family drama, and when it's about a chinese immigrant family struggling and striving, and when the child of that family is a depressed twentysomething unable to find her place in the world... i think i would have to be…

  • One Fine Morning

    One Fine Morning

    ★★★★

    quiet films about the small disappointments of everyday life in which people cry a lot are so important to me!!!