You close your eyes and speak to me
of faith and love and destiny
as distant as eternity
from truth and understanding
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Big Tree County 1993
An absolutely stunning piece of work that exudes as assured a mastery of the documentary form as any film I've seen from the likes of Wu Wenguang, Wang Bing, Duan Jinchuan, Xu Xin...but on the scale of an immaculate miniature (45 minutes in its original cut, 38 in a later reworking -- I watched both). (Piecing together the lost history of Chinese independent cinema, from the late-1980s to early 2000s, by scouring the deepest recesses of the industry and of…
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Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers 1990
Bet your eyes have opened today, Wenguang.
The fuck do you know about art with your fucking documentary...An already colossally important film becomes an irrefutably great one in the form of this expanded, two hour-plus director's cut, which is apparently also the original cut of the film, before it was edited down to the 68-minute version that most have seen. (Probably because that's what Wu himself uploaded to Chinese video sites like Bilili years ago.) It's important to remember,…
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros 2023
The weight scale is one thing, but the plate is another.
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The people taking over today, the young winemakers, have winemaking and growing methods that are just extraordinary.
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Anyone else craving John Dory?
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Public Security Bureau 1998
Major. Immersive, emotionally wrenching portrait of a local security bureau’s largely ineffective struggle against drug abuse and drug-related crime in the late-1990s that organically transforms into a probing look at the way the State addresses mental illness. This was, unsurprisingly, barred from release, like so many of Kang’s ‘90s/early 2000s works—before his legitimizing tenure at CCTV. One could consider it a sister film to Duan Jinchuan’s No. 16 Barkhor South St, in that it’s similarly interested in examining the mediating…
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997
Anime in a-g.
"I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't…
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Young Ahmed 2019
2 old white European dudes make a movie about a young radicalized Muslim boy what could go wrong
