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Nosferatu 2024
Bbbyrattu Christmas P2
We continue on this special, sort-of cold, Christmas LA night with Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU.
As many of us know, Nosferatu (1922) came to be as basically a fan-fic, re-telling of Stroker's Dracula. When the courts ruled that the film had infringed upon Dracula's copyright and ordered all prints to be destroyed as PUNISHMENT the film survived because Nosferatu itself was pirated and spread across through the sheer will of those who loved it. Eventually…
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Marona's Fantastic Tale 2019
I missed the screening for this film last year at LA's Animation is Film Fest because the day it screened, I found my eldest dog bleeding from the nose. A trip to the vet later we found out he likely had nasal cancer. After 18 years of spending my lifetime with that little boy, I lost him a week after.
With that I found Marona's Fantastic Tale to immediately be one of my favorite films of all time.
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Jellyfish Eyes 2013
There was a Takashi Murakami exhibit at The Broad some years ago and I was basked in the quirky, playful, overwhelming power of his colors, flowers, and child-like intensity.
Jellyfish Eyes has been in my peripheral vision ever since I found out what the Criterion Collection was. The CC holds forever a special place in my cinephile heart for being the real first time I thought: 'omg, there's so much more left to see' and it's…
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Hachiko 1987
Hachiko Monogatari tells the story of the famed Akita dog who waited for a better part of a decade at the exit of pre-war Shibuya Station for the master that would never return.
There's a lot of OZU energy in this film. I feel it in the way the film is shot and paced, there's a big slice-of-life vibe to the story that's mostly calming and meditative. It's a really good looking film too, with pre-war…
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Bubble 2022
Like a lot of similar anime films that have come out recently, the animation quality is out of this world. The vistas are breathtaking, my friends!
The film also follows another trend that we've seen recently from Japanese media, presenting us a post-apocalyptic world through an optimistic lens, it's a nice trend because it helps combat doomerism, as it turns out, life just keeps going and society can shift and adapt in all sorts of ways.The main story in…
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My house walk-through 2016
Been feeling stressed lately and I really needed something to help calm me.
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