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Carol 2015

★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Dec 2021 22

If there was a concise historical volume of my cinematic pilgrimage, it will probably open with the little joys of childhood transpired on a screen. The brief whir of the VHS as it loads the tape of “101 Dalmatians”, the vague memory of sitting in a theatre for the first time at around 7 years old after I pestered my mother to bring me to a screening of a local film because I liked the actress, and trips to the…
Voices Through Time 1996

★★★★ Watched 18 Dec 2023 4

My mornings are doors that stir with the crawling light, shut each day in the arrival of the evening where the sun glints and vanishes along the cracks, and dead stars glow across the quilt of the gloaming skies. I was once an infant. I was once a child. I was once an adolescent. Today, I am still becoming myself, and thereafter will be taken by the wrinkles and the scars I bear, the fading colour of time in my…

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Don't Bother to Knock 1952

★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2025

“You're a gal with a lot of variations.”
Everyone bothers to knock. Each rap upon the door of Room 809 brings the plot initially enfolded with an air of mystery on the verge of a psychotic episode. In the lobby, along hallways, in rooms and elevators, a group of people cross paths with each other. There is heartless Jed (Widmark), and his ex-darling hotel crooner Lyn (Bancroft). There is Eddie (Cook Jr.) the elevator operator, and his niece Nell (Monroe),…
Last Summer 2023

★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2025 3

I'm opening the year with Catherine Breillat whose "Fat Girl" disconcerted me younger, then later on the Huppert-led "Abuse of Weakness," which didn't do much for me I suspect partly due to ignorance, my taint of Catholic prudery. "Last Summer," meanwhile, struck me in a different way.
An incisive anatomy of the taboo as frameworks of abuse, "Last Summer" is lodged in a household ladened with troubles perfectly swept under the rug or so it seems. The summer season warms…

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Moonlit Winter 2019

★★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2020 14

the heavy snowfall in Moonlit Winter piles up along the driveway and the streets and is laboriously shovelled and cleared out the next day only to pile up again. an allusion to feelings tucked in so long ago that ebbs and flows whenever the switch of memories is flicked on and off.
where there is vulnerability in communication through undelivered letters, words muttered in the air without a response, phrases written on paper without a reader, longing gushes ragingly amidst…
National Theatre Live: Fleabag 2019

★★★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2019 8

“you know, either everyone feels like this a little bit, and they're just not talking about it, or I'm completely fucking alone. which isn't fucking funny.”
my thoughts, my thoughts, my thoughts...
obviously I’m not able to catch the play at a theatre because I currently live in Narnia nor are there any screenings near me but I managed to find a copy somewhere. other than visiting a country last May I think watching the series is the only other…

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