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My rating has improved since the rewatch. Dea Kulumbegashvili has solidified her status as one of the most important filmmakers of our generation. Any discourse on world cinema would be lacking without mention of her work. Truly inspiring stuff. I bite my fist in envy whenever I think of certain frames in this movie.

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I've never seen a more kinder, more beautiful character than Max Cherry. It helps that Robert Forester plays him, bringing into Cherry a touching vulnerability on the lines of Mike Ehrmantraut. But unlike Ehrmantraut's permanent stoicism, Cherry exhibits warmth first and cool rationality the next. It's so touching. Forester has a beautiful face too, like a father figure who's helped you in your childhood. And I love that so much. RIP Robert Forester. Please watch this for him. It's comforting to watch a character that you root for to win in the end.

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Nowadays, it's illegal to light a scene properly and block with intent ig

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John le Carré meets Nancy Meyers. Steven Soderbergh is a smart person's idea of a smart filmmaker, who also makes smart films. Simply sublime writing.

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The entire epilogue was straight up OFFENSIVE. Like, what the fuck, Brady? All this build-up, all this tension, the scaffolding of a sprawling and beautiful story for an asinine, incongrous climax? Fuck you. No, really fuck you. The epilogue, personally, felt like a Fuck You to the audience — snarky, sarcastic, reflecting the moral indignities of believing in one's dreams as perfect and utopic. But in the end, our ions are not perfect, in fact, riddled with inadequacies that transform it into a monstrosity of the original vision. Ok, fine, but don't shove that into the film as whole. Don't piss it off like that. Fucking hell. I'm sleeping angry tonight.

Guy Pearce is my ing actor performance of the year.

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still so beautiful, so achingly clear and lovely. my oh my.

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bodied this year

1. Dune: Part Two
2. About Dry Grasses
3. Queer
4. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
5. Challengers
6. Grand Tour
7. The Substance
8. April
9. The Zone of Interest
10. Aattam

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i need sleep

1. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2. Queer
3. Grand Tour
4. La Cocina
5. Chicken for Linda!
6. Stranger Eyes
7. The Art Of Warfare
8. Algiers
9. Linda
10. I'm Still Here

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Substance
2. The Room Next Door
3. Anora
4. Emilia Pérez
5. April
6. All We Imagine as Light
7. The Shameless
8. Armand
9. Rumours

Excellent year.

1. Past Lives
2. Close Your Eyes
3. Anatomy of a Fall
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Pacifiction
6. Oppenheimer
7. The Holdovers
8. Asteroid City
9. Family
10. Jigarthanda DoubleX

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The following 100 films are those which have shaped my perception of what film is as a medium.
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The first 30 films are pretty solidified. The rest 70 are my favorites but not in any fixed manner.
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I apologize if my list is lacking of Tarkovsky, Bergman, Kubrick, Coppola, Godard.. Kinda new to this whole movie journey thing and I sure as hell will watch their films in the near future.

1. Synecdoche, New York

   Can't say much about this. It's everything we DON'T want to see when we go to the films. Funny, sad, depressing, pessimistic, weird but wholly original. What a film. 

2. Caché

   My first intro to slow cinema, if that's a thing(it's not). Haneke made me realise that you don't need relatable characters or a gripping story or a banging soundtrack or even fucking good costumes to make a GOOD film. All you need is an idea. For film is a medium where abstractions are comprehensible. Good film... really good. 

3. In the Mood for Love

   Love. Memories. Nostalgia. Regret. Sadness. Melancholy. Loving and being loved will always be the greatest tragedy of our lives. 

4. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
5. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
6. Norte, The End of History

   A 4 hour epic that felt like it's a sharp 90 minute flick. A saga of betrayal, poverty, morality, empathy and the human condition itself, Lav Diaz made a film that'll stick with for my whole life

7. Taste of Cherry
8. There Will Be Blood

   Sends chills down my spine whenever I see that derry explosion with Jonny Greenwoods score blasting in each second. Greatest film of the century so far? Maybe.... 

9. Amour

   Crushing. Absolutely crushing. This has to be Haneke's most mainstream of his lot and I'm so glad this was made. It's not about age, death, life and whatever. It's love. That's all. 

10. Punch-Drunk Love

    PTA at his fucking peak. Such a absurd story but so well done. Definitely my favorite of his but only when There Will Be Blood slips from my mind! 

...plus 92 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Props to AFTERSUN for making me weep my hollow heart out.
It's the Year of Colin Farrell and Fahad Faasil (again)

1. Aftersun
2. TÁR
3. Decision to Leave
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. All Quiet on the Western Front
6. Top Gun: Maverick
7. BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
8. Vikram
9. Nope
10. Pada

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

And the pandemic is raging stronger than ever before. It's the New Year and things are still looking bleak. This list will for all the films I've watched from April of 2021 to April of 2022. Fingers crossed, this is the last year I'll be ever doing this!

Rewatches
. Pride and Prejudice
. Before Sunset
. Before Midnight
. Taxi Driver
. Ratatouille
. Antichrist
. Arrival
. Zodiac
. Goodfellas

1. Taste of Cherry

   An astounding work of art, poetry on celluloid, a film that will make you question the very nature of life and our existence without the least bit being pretentious. Staggering, to say the least. 

2. The Remains of the Day

   In retrospect, the price one pays for conscientiousness is life itself. Absolutely devastating.

3. Drive My Car
4. The Beatles: Get Back
5. The Worst Person in the World
6. The Wild Pear Tree

   An artist's existential turmoil, in a world where where the artist is simply Ceylan never misses. My adoration of the Turkish maestro's style is simply increasing with every film I see of his. 

7. A Serious Man

   An absurdist's wet dream. Accept the mystery. Nothing is meant to make sense. There's answers, answers, and answers">View the full list on Letterboxd.

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A great year for cinema!
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Best Male Performances:
. Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car)
. Amin Jadidi (A Hero)
. Simon Rex (Red Rocket)
. Suraj Venjaramood (The Great Indian Kitchen)
. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of The Dog)
. Stephen Graham (Boiling Point)
. Nicholas Cage (Pig)
. Oscar Isaac (The Card Counter)
. Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
. Dev Patel (The Green Knight)



Best Female Performances:
. Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person In The World)
. Virginie Efira (Benedetta)
. Nimisha Sajayan (The Great Indian Kitchen)
. Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
. Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
. Ruth Negga (ing)
. Agathe Rousselle (Titane)
. Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
. Noomi Rapace (Lamb)
. Jodie Comer (The Last Duel)


Best ing Male Performances:
. Anders Danielsen Lie (The Worst Person In The World)
. Kodi Smit-Mhee (The Power of the Dog)
. Lakshvir Saran (Milestone)
. Jason Isaacs (Mass)
. Reed Birney (Mass)
. Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
. Vincent Lindon (Titane)
. Masaki Okada (Drive My Car)
. Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
. Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man: No Way Home)

Best ing Female Performances:
. Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
. Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
. Martha Plimpton (Mass)
. Ann Dowd (Mass)
. Toko Miura (Drive My Car)
. Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
. Judi Dench (Belfast)
. Diana Rigg (Last Night in Soho)
. Tessa Thompson (ing)
. Marion Cotillard (Annette)


Best Directors:
. Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
. Joachim Trier (The Worst Person In The World)
. Asghar Farhadi (A Hero)
. Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
. Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
. Julia Ducournau (Titane)
. Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
. Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
. Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Flee)
. Shaka King (Judas and the Black Messiah)


Best Screenplay:
. Drive My Car
. A Hero
. The Worst Person In The World
. The Lost Daughter
. Red Rocket
. Mass
. The Power of the Dog
. The Green Knight
. Titane
. Boiling Point


Best Cinematography:
. The Worst Person In The World
. Annette
. Titane
. Flee
. The Green Knight
. C'mon c'mon
. Sardhar Udham
. The Hand of God
. Dune
. The Power of the Dog


Best Editing:
. A Hero
. Drive My Car
. Flee
. Titane
. Last Night in Soho
. Dune
. The Lost Daughter
. No Time to Die
. C'mon C'mon
. Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Score: Jonny fucking Greenwood (Spencer, The Power Of The Dog)

Underwhelming Film of the Year: Titane

Biggest Surprise: The Suicide Squad


It was the Year of Fahadh Faasil, ladies and gentlemen.

1. Drive My Car
2. The Worst Person in the World
3. A Hero
4. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
5. The Power of the Dog
6. The Lost Daughter
7. Dune
8. The Green Knight
9. Red Rocket
10. The Great Indian Kitchen

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

One of the best directors working today. Dude's a fucking genius. I finally watched all his films so well... I kinda had to

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. There Will Be Blood
3. The Master
4. Phantom Thread
5. Magnolia
6. Inherent Vice
7. Boogie Nights
8. Licorice Pizza
9. Hard Eight
10. Anima

Pretty self-explanatory.
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Mads Mikkelsen - The Hunt
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Joaquin Phoenix & Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Master.
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Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
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Tilda Swinton- We Need To Talk About Kevin
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Donnie Yen - Ip Man (2008)
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Mehmet Amin Toprak & Muzaffer Özdemir - Uzak
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Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
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Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
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Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke - The Before Trilogy
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Brad Pitt - Babel
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Liam Neeson - Schindler's List
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Jeon Do-Yeon - Secret Sunshine.
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Kamal Haasan - Naayagan
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Park Chan-Wook - Oldboy & I Saw The Devil
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Adrien Titieni - Graduation
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Tom Cruise - Magnolia
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Denzel Washington - Malcolm X.
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Mohanlal & Prakash Raj - Iruvar
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Fahad Faasil - Thondimuthalum Dhriksakshiyum
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Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
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Roy Scheider - All That Jazz
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Robert Downey Jr - Iron Man
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David Oyelowo - Selma
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Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung - In The Mood For Love
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Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Depression Trilogy.
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Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher
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Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal & Maribel Verdu - Y Tu Mama Tambien
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Ethan Hawke - First Reformed.
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Robert De Niro - Raging Bull.
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David Thewlis - Naked
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Harvey Keitel- Bad Lieutenant
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Synecdoche, New York
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Brad Pitt - The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford
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Val Kilmer - The Doors
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Jason Statham - The Transporter Trilogy
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Bruno Ganz - Downfall
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Alexsei Kravchenko - Come and See.
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Jason Segel - The End of the Tour
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Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
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1. The Hunt
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. The Master
4. Gandhi
5. We Need to Talk About Kevin
6. Ip Man
7. Distant
8. Citizen Kane
9. Ed Wood
10. Before Sunrise

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I have N whole months and let's say my eyes bore the brunt quite hard. But it was worth every frame.
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Drop a comment for my thoughts on a film so we can discuss it! This list will be continuously updating until this pesky pandemic situation is actually under control lol.
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Recommend me some films as well!
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Rewatched:
Blue Valentine
The Before Trilogy
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Martyrs (2008)
Loveless
In The Mood For Love

1. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2. Paris, Texas
3. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
4. Winter Sleep
5. Come and See
6. All That Jazz
7. Three Monkeys
8. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
9. Poetry
10. Dog Day Afternoon

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Interesting year.

1. Another Round
2. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
3. Sound of Metal
4. Mank
5. Possessor
6. Tenet
7. David Byrne's American Utopia
8. Soul
9. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
10. The Devil All the Time

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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• No Time to Die

  
  

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• A Quiet Place Part II

  
  

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...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

What a year.

1. Parasite
2. The Lighthouse
3. Marriage Story
4. The Irishman
5. Uncut Gems
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7. 1917
8. Knives Out
9. Kumbalangi Nights
10. Climax

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.