Favorite films

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  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2022 6

  Pretty much pitch perfect in every conceivable way, from the performances and the direction to the atmosphere and wonderous scoring, though it was the unexpectedly moving ending that suddenly sealed the deal for me as an all time favourite, a denouement of such extraordinary romanticism that I'll happily admit caught me off guard, this light-hearted comedy fantasy with such a daft premise had quietly disarmed all my critical faculties and rendered me a blubbering mess.

  Non-horror ghost stories had already…

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  Platform 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Sep 2021 2

  Zhangke has described Platform as a weight on his heart that if he didn't remove he wouldn't be able to do anything else, a film so epic in scope that it couldn't be his feature debut as intended, but instead became a sophomore effort and his magnum opus.

  Spanning a tumultuous decade that begins in 1979, the film follows the lives of a group of young people during China's Cultural Revolution, a generation swept up by changes so drastic that…

Recent reviews

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  An Act of Murder 1948

  ★★★ Watched 28 Nov 2023

  Of all the 'problem pictures' made in the classic Hollywood era, An Act of Murder has the guts to tackle one of the thorniest subjects, that of euthanasia, a controversial topic which still stirs heated debate today and remains illegal in all 50 states. It's hardly a surprise then that such a gloomy, serious minded picture that only seems to get bleaker with each act, was a total flop and is barely remembered today.

  It's a shame though because despite…

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  A Woman's Vengeance 1948

  ★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2023

  A textbook example of what often happens when you let a writer adapt their own novel into a film script—the literary brilliance of the source is preserved but at the cost of a film that is lumbered by its own weighty ambitions and dense verbiage that doesn't translate into riveting cinema.

  A Woman's Vengeance is a frustrating watch, with very strong and atmospheric sequences beautifully directed by Zoltan Korda, followed by less engaging ones where Aldous Huxley's prose takes priority…

Popular reviews

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  Antoine and Colette 1962

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Nov 2017

  Friendzone: New Wave edition.

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  Welcome, or No Trespassing 1964

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jun 2018

  I never would have thought that Elim Klimov, the man behind one of the most horrifying and relentlessly powerful war films, Come and See was making charming satirical comedies twenty years prior.

  I didn't read any reviews on here beforehand, but immediately picked up the Wes Anderson aesthetic and noticed the similarities with Moonrise Kingdom, and seeing that movie mentioned straight away by someone here confirms my suspicions that Anderson has probably seen this and taken inspiration. Klimov's offbeat comedy,…