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  The Discarnates 1988

  ★★★★ Rewatched by Ishan 21 Nov 2021 6

  Nostalgia is usually emanated within happiness, filled with a yearning to return and relive a time so dear to oneself. It is typically instilled with a mentality full of positive feelings and Nobuhiko Obayashi certainly is no stranger to this, often filming past time periods in a manner that reflects childhood impulses alongside an overall fascination with the world that is shaped by a youthful consciousness. Yet with The Discarnates, Obayashi taps into a completely different side of nostalgia that…

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  Blade Runner 1982

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Ishan 28 Sep 2017 8

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

  “Quite an experience to live in fear isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.”

  With Denis Villeneuve’s sequel Blade Runner: 2049 coming up, it never felt more an appropriate time to revisit the special gem that is the Final Cut version of the 1982 classic Blade Runner. A landmark of the science-fiction genre and the film that gave birth to cyberpunk, Blade Runner’s influence is colossal and its ideas feel more relevant now than ever. I was…

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Ishan 03 Jul 2022 4

  Crying your eyes out to the silencio sequence on an unreal 35mm print with your best friends…god it really doesn’t get much better does it 

  One of those films that just reminds me on such an indescribable level of how much power this beautiful medium will always hold :’’))

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  Taxi Driver 1976

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Ishan 26 Jun 2022 8

  BEST BIRTHDAY <3

Popular reviews

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  The Master 2012

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Ishan 08 Nov 2017 16

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

  "I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher...but above all I am a man. A hopelessly inquisitive man just like you."

  It’s been a while since I’ve been tempted to write a long spoiler review for a film I truly love with all my heart. Well, after rewatching The Master, I’m happy to say that feeling is back and a long spoiler review has been written.

  War harms the very best of us. It strips us…

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  Paths of Glory 1957

  ★★★★★ Watched by Ishan 19 May 2017 6

  [This review isn't great, but I like to think of it as a time capsule of my feelings back then]

  "Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion."

  As soon as this film ended and as soon as I wiped away the tears, I sat there astonished. There are not many films that are able to do that but Paths of Glory absolutely did.…