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  • The Wing or the Thigh?

    ★★★½

  • The Idiot

    ★★★★½

  • Hundreds of Beavers

    ★★★★

  • Memories of Murder

    ★★★★½

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  • La Vie de Bohème

    La Vie de Bohème 1992

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Sep 2024

    Needed something familiar after a long day, so here we are. Definitely a favorite from Kaurismäki's filmography--and frankly, between the naturalistic Old France stylization, brilliant performances from Wilms & Pellonpää (and Baudelaire!! 🐾), the Fuller/Malle/Léaud cameos, and the romantic-melancholic story more broadly, I'm afraid this is just an all-timer for me. Like I feel more than comfortable putting this in my favorites ever, and would honestly probably accept living in this film if given the opportunity, even if that would probably…

  • The Hill

    The Hill 1965

    ★★★★★ Watched 19 Jun 2024

    So what's the charge? Failing to obey an order? Or, drunk in charge of a cigarette lighter? Oh, you crazy bastard! You'd prop up dead men and inspect them if you was ordered to!

    POV you're me watching this movie:
    😐🤔😯😲😳🤯😱

    What an experience, man. Easily one of the most impactful films I've seen in a good while. It may be simply one of the most visceral condemnations of authoritarian rule I've witnessed on the screen, especially with relation to…

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  • The Wing or the Thigh?

    The Wing or the Thigh? 1976

    ★★★½ Watched 10 Dec 2024

    unhinged lmao

  • The Idiot

    The Idiot 1951

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 07 Dec 2024

    Maybe didn't hit quite as hard this time around as it did the first in my perhaps slightly overenthusiastic early cinephilia (lol 🙈), but by and large I still stand by this film. I find the eponymous 'Idiot' such a moving character, and Kurosawa's transposing of the whole plot to snowy Hokkaido is still so darn beautiful. Such a shame his full vision does not survive in the print we have today, but even for what remains to still be so brilliant/moving I think says something.

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  • Drive My Car

    Drive My Car 2021

    ★★★★½ Watched 29 Nov 2024

    wait actually sublime, holy 😳

  • The Holdovers

    The Holdovers 2023

    ★★★★½ Watched 09 Dec 2023 2

    Look--I watch a lot of old movies. Very rarely do contemporary films really *wow* me, but this happened to be an oh so pleasant exception! Holy smokes!
    A modern holiday classic in the truest sense, because aside from the cozy, festive and wintry vibes it's just a damn good and thoughtful film. Thematically, it reminded me of something between It's A Wonderful Life and Dead Poets Society, with maybe a touch of Wes Anderson sprinkled in.
    It was quite simply…

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