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Film #1 of "The 2025 Cult Movie Challenge"
Week #1: Anime Week
letterboxd.com/cyman/list/the-2025-cult-movie-challenge/
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To say I'm an anime fan would be an overstatement, albeit I'm an admirer of Satoshi Kon's (PERFECT BLUE) work. LOOK BACK caught me off guard, though. It tells a profound and highly emotional story in under one hour, mixing flashbacks, flash-forwards, montages, alternative versions, and daydreams to a thought-provoking experience.
Thank you Kristof Szabó for your touching review, otherwise I might not have watched this one.
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★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jan 2025
Still a shitload of fun upon rewatch, this time in 3D at home. I have to admit though, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE works better with a like-minded crowd and some booze. With that said, all three DEADPOOL flicks are comfort food for me and put me in a happy place. And honestly, that's all I want for this kind of movies.
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THE SEVENTH CURSE reminded me why I love Hong Kong cinema so much! It's a completely bonkers RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK rip-off including fast-paced martial arts, cheesy monsters, fun gore and make-up effects, nudity, reckless stunts, and Chow Yun-Fat firing a bazooka at a rubber monster. Yep, this is great fun from start to finish.
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★★★★½ Watched 30 Sep 2019
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Film #12 of 45 - Cinemonster's Hoop-Tober 6.0
letterboxd.com/cyman/list/hoop-tober-60-horroctober-2019/
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THE LIGHTHOUSE is a masterclass in sound design, cinematography, and acting. It has an early David Lynch and Roman Polanski vibe, H.P. Lovecraft references, fragments of Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS, and more than once Ingmar Bergman's THE SEVENTH SEAL and PERSONA went through my head. Robert Eggers (THE WITCH) shot the film on 35mm, using the 1.19:1 aspect ratio including vintage lenses designed in the 1930s, which creates a second-to-none atmosphere. It's both terryfing and fascinating, consistently expressionistic and nightmarish, equally surreal and absurd. A descent into the human psyche. Masterpiece.
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