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2008

★★★★½ Watched 23 May 2025

A cellist living in Tokyo, Daigo (Masahiro Motoki) is forced to return to his hometown when funding is pulled from his orchestra. Unbeknownst to his wife, he accepts a position that involves preparing the deceased for their final departure, leading him to reevaluate his life and, perhaps more importantly, his relationships with those around him. Departures is a languid, meditative film, meticulously directed and beautifully shot – every shot is perfectly framed and expertly blocked. The characters all resonate in…

1997

★★★★ Watched 22 May 2025

Seemingly one of director Neil Jordan's lesser-known films, The Butcher Boy follows the exploits of Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), the product of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, who makes his way through life in a small working-class Irish village by means of violence and intimidation, a violent sociopath in the making. It is a bleak and harrowing viewing experience, but the film is infused with an odd energy thanks to the remarkable performance of Owens and Jordan's energetic…

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2001

★★★★ Watched 17 May 2025

Ed (Billy Bob Thornton) is a man living an unfulfilled life. His job as a barber is nothing more than a means to an end. His unloving wife Doris (s McDormand) is having an affair. He lives in a world of facile relationships in which he wants no part. The Man Who Wasn't There is one of the Coen brothers most unappreciated works, a neo-noir film about alienation, infidelity, and, ultimately, murder. Filled with effective lighting, stellar cinematography by Roger…

1970

★½ Watched 22 May 2025

Thirty years before American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman hit the big screen, there was John Harrington (played by Stephen Forsythe, a Clint Eastwood look-a-like who quickly faded into obscurity), an intelligent and impeccably well-dressed serial killer with a penchant for taking a meat cleaver (not a hatchet) to doomed new brides. Mario Bava’s Hatchet for a Honeymoon is another in the line of Bava’s films that failed to live up to the success of his earlier films, most notably Black Sunday…

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