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Favorite films

  • Paris, Texas
  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Fallen Angels
  • 35 Shots of Rum

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  • 8½

    ★★★★½

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★

  • The Wedding Banquet

    ★★★½

  • Harold and Maude

    ★★★★

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8½

1963

★★★★½ Liked Watched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

No Other Land

2024

★★★★ Watched

masaferyatta.com/

For three weeks, beginning Friday April 18th 2025, this film will be available to watch online in North America as part of an effort to raise for Masafer Yatta, the Palestinian villages in the West Bank where this documentary is set.

The people of Masafer Yatta are fighting for the right to live a normal life. All they want is a place to live, access to water, a school to educate their children, a functioning economy so they…

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Poetry

2010

★★★★½ Liked 2

Agnes' Song

How is it over there?
How lonely is it?
Is it still glowing red at sunset?
Are the birds still singing on the way to the forest?
Can you receive the letter I dared not send?
Can I convey…
the confession I dared not make?
Will time and roses fade?
Now it's time to say goodbye
Like the wind that lingers and then goes,
just like shadows
To promises that never came,
to the love sealed till…

Memoir of a Murderer

2017

★★★★ 22

I wanted to watch "Memories of Murder" directed by Bong Joon-ho. So I searched for it on Netflix and settled in. Got through the whole thing before I realized I had, in fact, watched an entirely different Korean movie called "Memoir of a Murderer." I feel tricked (those names are way too similar!!), but at least this film was pretty fun.

What an interesting premise. Serial killer vs. serial killer - who will prevail? So many mindfucks from the main…