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  • Ikiru
  • Pather Panchali
  • Fireworks
  • A New Leaf

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  • Eraser

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  • Egg and Stone

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  • So Sweet... So Perverse

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  • Point Blank

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  • Millennium Mambo

    Millennium Mambo

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    It’s the start of a new century, both at the time of the release of Millennium Mambo but also for its director, Hou Hsiao-hsien. But even as everything might seem new to both himself and the story he’s telling in here, it all feels like it’s doomed to someday become a thing of the past. This is how Millennium Mambo starts off, with its opening shot of the youthful Vicky (played by Shu Qi), who narrates that this is a…

  • Z

    Z

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    In terms of the political content that Costa-Gavras is touching upon in Z, it may indeed very well be one of the very last truly politically radical films to have been nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. To this day, it still feels every bit as incendiary, owing to its anger at the people in power who are more interested in excising power over working in the best interests of the people they're supposed to lead. Which unfortunately speaks…

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  • Eraser

    Eraser

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    Not exactly a great film, but you have Arnold Schwarzenegger shooting an alligator and then responding with "you're luggage" and it's not even his best one-liner in this movie. The best one-liner, if I were to reveal it, happens at the very end of the movie and I think that the movie needed a whole lot more of those in order to become a five-star masterpiece. Hard to really say that much of Eraser makes sense but at the same…

  • Point Blank

    Point Blank

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    One of the most disorienting movies ever made, but for that very reason I think it also just happens to be John Boorman's masterpiece. It's his masterpiece because this film captures a state of mind that's continually eating away at itself, not knowing where things are going from there - even starting with Lee Marvin pondering about how he ended up in a prison cell. But the way that Point Blank unveils itself reveals a more psychologically complex piece underneath,…

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  • Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up

    Β½

    fuck off

  • Turning Red

    Turning Red

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    Saw this one in a theater, after having won a draw from TIFF - and I'm really sad that many people are not going to have the same experience that I was ever so lucky to have with Disney's shafting this one on over to Disney+. But I think the one thing worth taking away from having seen Turning Red is that as someone who's grown up watching Pixar films for just about my entire life, it feels nice to…