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cinema as a form of spiritual exorcism

films in my diary/watched date list are only the ones i saw theatrically

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Recent reviews

Falling Leaves 1912

★★★★ Added

this is so sweet omg i cried
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928

★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

i kept moving seats, going closer and closer to the screen throughout the screening until i ended up in the front row and was staring up at dreyer's massive closeups and falconetti's distorted face on the biggest screen at the projector having a cinematic baptism - and i'm not even religious...
the way dreyer frames the human face is the best in the world and has never been matched.. whenever dreyer had the priests or lawyers look down into the…

Popular reviews

Godland 2022

★★★ Added 1

i am so, so conflicted about this film.
for every gorgeous jawdropping shot or sequence (especially the first half), there's 20 of the most banal, horrid filmmaking examples on display a couple minutes later. it's just such a narratively bland and unthoughtful film, with the worst second half I've seen.
but at the same time, there's some incredible filmmaking on display here. the sequence with nature shots and the photography along with the poetry near the beginning was incredible. the…
About Dry Grasses 2023

★★½ Watched 09 Aug 2023 1

a film that's full of good ideas, but unfortunately gets tonally muddled and side shifts into a hour-long philisophical discussion that has nothing to do with the first 90 minutes. could've just been a book (and i don't like it when films could've just been a book and don't benefit from the visual medium).
last 30 minutes is also incredibly frustrating. i can't tell if nuri bilge is addressing the problematic nature of the pedophilic character by almost doing a…

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