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  Chungking Express 1994

  Rewatched by Zach Cheney 01 Dec 2021

  Beautiful people tortured by longing, but beautifully

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  Downtown 2019

  Watched by Zach Cheney 30 Nov 2021

  Something about this was quite upsetting to me. Probably not just the elevation of form over content, not even the divorce of the two, but the idolatry of the former and the obliteration of the latter. Freakin fireworks cinema. Ephemeral, fleeting, spectacular, and empty. Tiktok videos have more going for them.

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  Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000

  Rewatched by Zach Cheney 19 Feb 2019 2

  After Nic Cage goes all Zen-Buddhist listening to "Low Rider," then opens his eyes and says, "Let's ride," I told my wife to bury me with the blu-ray of this movie.

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  One Hundred and One Nights 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched by Zach Cheney 25 Apr 2017 2

  Are you familiar or in love with the following:

  Fellini/Mastroianni collaborations
  Mastroianni's repartee with Anouk Aimée
  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  Catherine Deneuve
  Robert De Niro (w/ ponytail)
  Alain Delon
  the Lumière brothers
  the Cannes Film Festival
  Luis Buñuel
  Gerard Depardieu's death scenes
  Welles & Touch of Evil
  Jeanne Moreau
  Jean Renoir
  Erich von Stroheim (in The Grand Illusion & Sunset Boulevard)
  Agnès Varda (esp. Cleo, Le Bonheur, & Vagabond)
  Jacques Demy (esp. Young Girls)
  Nosferatu
  and/or cinema?

  Then this is for you. Viewing this was…