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David Lynch Cooks Quinoa 2007

Watched 20 Jan 2025

I could listen to him tell stories for hours.
Rest in peace David Lynch.
Zerograd 1988

★★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2025

Pretty much ticks off everything i love about the movies. Weird, dreamlike atmosphere, surreal but extremely dry sense of humor and people in familiar spaces that are uniquely framed in a way that feels detached and alienating. A lot of people will easily classify this as Kafkaesque, but i think it feels reminiscent more of Victor Pelevin/Vladimir Sorokin's works. Mainly, a decaying country is falling apart and it's own citizens are trying to just enjoy the last moments before they're washed away by the cyclical transition.
Brilliant music by Eduard Artemyev as always!

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Rehearsals for Retirement 2007

★★★★½ Added 1

Video game to film adaptations will never work. No matter the idea, technology or the vision available it will never work in any way possible. That might sound extreme but just look at the history of those adaptations and you'll get the idea, and even at the same time it's a disrespect to both of these two different mediums. Film is an audio/visual journey with it's own available techniques and styles, whereas video games combine every medium imaginable and offers…
Civil War 2024

★ Watched 23 Apr 2024

A movie that starts out with a very unique concept that i didn't actually expect to like (the photojournalist angle) before completely bombing in the second half where it devolves into a shitty call of duty campaign.
I honestly wasn't really holding out all that much for Civil War. I usually love alternate history fiction, but Civil War takes itself too seriously in such a condescending way that it kind of just squanders anything interesting to talk about it.
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- Eric Rohmer/Hong Sang-soo styled social realism
- Japanese cyberpunk mindfuck trips
- Hazy, ethereal period pieces
- Minimalist dramas
- Pure blockbuster spectacles
- Martial arts flicks
- Surrealism weirdness
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- Trashy exploitation B - movies
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