#102nd Film of 2023

{94%}🏅

I very casually watched Coraline many years ago and was stunned by its distinct artistic style: of course one shouldn’t be surprised by that coming from Selick, a collaborator of Tim Burton and the director behind ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’. But certainly a rewatch was very necessary to truly make sense of this Freudian nightmare for the child’s mind.

Taking a step back and observing animation as a whole you’ll find that many films deal…

Taipei Story

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                               #467TH Film Of 2020

My first experience with an Edward Yang work was Yi Yi, which was a film entirely different to anything I’d seen prior and one that moved me a great deal and remains one of my all time favorites. Yang’s most acclaimed film A Brighter Summer Day has long been my most anticipated viewing. Sometime ago I purchased…

La Haine

{100%} 💯

                                #368TH Film Of 2020

La Haine is a fiery, ionate, powerful and important modern masterpiece. It appears like a film in which everyone working on it truly felt the ideas that the filmmaker was trying to explore and they all went there together. It opens magnificently, and centers around three stellar and very real performances from Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé…

Midnight Cowboy

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                                 #349TH Film Of 2020

Before actually writing this review I was excited to finally write a review of a film I was going to give 5 stars but not 100/100, this film I had noted down as a 95%, but once I clicked the review button on this film I thought yeah maybe it’s a 96 or even a 97…