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Omega Rising Women of Rastafari 1988

★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

Actually pretty informative history of women in Rastafarianism in Jamaica and their involvement in the labor movement and protests against British rule.
Shirin 2008

★★★½ Watched 17 Jan 2025

A challenging watch for a unique film. Rather than showing the action of the story, Kiarostami turns his camera on his audience - Iranian actresses and Juliette Binoche in a theater - watching a film of the ancient Persian titular poem. Their facial expressions and reactions tell the tale as much as the sounds and dialogue coming from the screen we cannot see. Hearing swords clanging against each other and cutting into flesh but seeing a woman in the audience…

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David Lynch: The Art Life 2016

★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2025 2

RIP 1946-2025
I decided to watch this instead of one of his films so
I could hear his folksy voice again. Listening to him relate the story of how as a young boy he witnessed a naked woman with a bloodied mouth walking towards him in the street is such an ah ha moment. The wellspring, perhaps, of all the creativity to follow. Many people don’t know that besides his work in film and television, David was a painter and…
Blue Velvet 1986

★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jan 2018 4

I think I’ve seen Blue Velvet about a dozen times through the years. Shocking, I know. While not as avant-garde as some of David Lynch’s other works (Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., the revival of Twin Peaks), it’s the comparative normality of Blue Velvet that makes it so subversive.
The opening scene is one of the greatest in cinema - camera pans from bright blue sky to red roses in front of white picket fence. We’re in a timeless, idealized…

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