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Often reminded me of Edward Yang’s A brighter summer day, which is like the biggest praise possible..
Nowhere near as finessed as that film, but thats part of dazed and confused’s charm and why it works so well ig cause you kinda are just dazed and confused with them lol
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On a separate note, I’m so jealous of this time period. Need to get off my phone one of these days, I hate the fucking thing. 
not you tho letterboxd, love you xox

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Maybe no one really exists and it is only raining outside

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Extremely excited to rewatch this fascinatingly cool work of art
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A poignant postmodern take on the current housing market  
Thought I needed a good cry but this is too much

Ignore me guys

more superficial then I ed D: idk

None of this would’ve happened if I was there 🤦‍♂️

Can’t think of many better ways to spend 85 minutes <33

Idk yall the theacritcal cut is kinda wack, still charming but the pacing here is just so sluggish, was falling asleep 

Cool to see tho, with allot more context to stuff, unless my memory is just terrible and I had forgotten a bunch idk lol

[edit: having thought about it longer I think I did just forget a fuck load of scenes from this film?? Idk I’m scared guys]
I feel I coulda edited this better loool 

I never understood any of us 

this film hits every mark- so sublime
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Love you Wesdog xox thankyou for your art

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

Epic film. dragged a bit but the atmosphere was cool enough that I could happily chill in it 😎
Wish James Caan was in more, he’s so effortlessly great, RIP 

Hey, who da fuck are you slick? Somebody knows you? Whadda you, crazy or what?

It’s on my bucket list to agitate an Italian American if anyone knows one? 🙏🙏

You want sum milk?

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

✧༚˚✧₊⁎⁺ꜱɪᴍᴘʟʏ ᴡᴏɴᴅᴇʀꜰᴜʟ˚✧₊⁎⁺˳✧༚.

Amazing.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

honeyyy  where’s my penjamin?!

Relatable poster 🥀🥀 stroking my belly all full n shi,smirking

happy 4/20 to those who celebrate <3

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Had kind of a similar day to this, bonging up and heading into the sun to our closest currys to pre order the new switch 😛
Had some funny side quest along the way - these stoner comedies aren't too far from reality lol,, anyway we decided to watch this after to commemorate:) was peak #lovebeingastoner xox

also someone better bring back good stoner comedies, or I will...

Pre film thoughts: 
Got way to kaboonkes off the Shrek bong and the Mike Wazowski edibles havnt even hit yet 🙈
Lord have mercy 

Thoughts while I’m watching the film😎
I’m sat next to a bunch of toddlers, we’re gonna be giggling and kicking our feet together, how sweet

not everyone clapping for stuff from the game😭😭 cute humans

if only all the actors in this were as naturally funny as Jermaine clement is 🥀🥀

the evil pig being Māori is throwing me 

Someone please make a re edit with Shrek 2 music instead of the mostly garbage songs this films got

They shoulda hid one of those evil Steve’s in the background somewhere

Love that they chose a kid with a lisp as the lead

Not this cinema with the backrooms when I’m tryna find the toilets💀
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What a weird fever dream

Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.

What a uniquely uncomfortable experience, I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
really really well done - that’s not to say I enjoyed it too much though. 🐟

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

MORE VISTAVISION!?!?  one of dem gods is good 🙏
This looks so fun https://youtu.be/Ap-j8e9J5U0?si=y5yXjhz6zvkZluHc
🎥🏃💨

Watched on Tuesday March 25, 2025.

I’m so tired Grandma..
Why is the world so different from what I thought it was?

Edward Yang's Yi Yi is more than just a film—it's a living  meditation on the human experience, and I don’t wanna hear otherwise🙅‍♂️😙

Over its three-hour runtime, I feel it transcends a sense of ‘traditional cinematic storytelling’ becoming an intimate portrait that breathes with us - each frame pulses with an extraordinary sense of life. It invites you—
not simply to watch, but to inhabit the world of the Jian family, as they Live and cry through 2000’s Taipei. 
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Every family has its struggles, pain and joy, its intricate details and cadence, and yet i find so much more comion towards the Jian’s..
Yang-Yang arriving home dripping wet, feels like I've just witnessed my little brother surviving near death.
Ting-Ting being left in that hotel room is as painful as it would be had it happened to my sister. 
~ Just thinking about these scenes makes me emotional, and yet there’s so many more… 

Ultimately, I think Yi Yi’s brilliance lies in this profound immersion, Yang crafts a narrative that feels simultaneously universal and deeply personal.
It captures life's unpredictable rhythms
its cruel nature,
its quiet moments of tenderness, 
its sudden bursts of energy.

Within this tantalising rhythm, Yang (credit to editor aswell!!) gives each moment a perfected amount of space - masterfully allowing every emotion to resonate with an unparalleled authenticity.

Yi Yi does not just show life; it becomes life—complex, nuanced, and Achingly beautiful. It's a cinematic experience that does not merely tell a story, but allows you to feel the very pulse of human existence.
From wedding and bith to death and grief.
My favourite film, the greatest of all time:
Yi Yi “A One and a Two”. <3

Sorry for the ramble, I love this film allot

First half is some of the greatest cinema oat! second half starts getting tiresome as it goes on.. but still wouldn’t change much ✌️😽

Didn’t think I’d ever say this but I reccomend watching the dub!!

Watched on Friday March 7, 2025.

great time at the moovies 🤯

Watched on Wednesday March 5, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 5, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday March 4, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 3, 2025.

We must keep on living 

Don’t think I’ve ever cried to complete silence within a film before this..
  Incredible

Thanks for rec @heythisisjames :)

Watched on Wednesday February 12, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday February 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 14, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 12, 2025.

To quote J.A. Redmerski, “It’s like irresistible poison: I’m mesmerised by the way it’s making me feel though it has the potential to crush my soul and I drink it down anyway.”
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Argh so amazing,, always blown away by how well done this film is..     • I love you eternally •

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders

recommend checking this version out!!

-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gv7UG5_nI <-
so pretty ☺️

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

In the mood for a cigarette and a crush after this stunning, Stunning film..

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 31, 2025.

Love you bro😽

3.9 gang?! Fr?  
Finchers best idc.

Edit: Friends rating is 4.4 :0 yall some valid mfs x

1. Thief
2. Angel's Egg
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
4. Close-Up
5. Come and See
6. Woman in the Dunes
7. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
8. On the Occasion of ing the Turning Gate
9. Millennium Mambo
10. March Comes In Like a Lion

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Personal ranking of films from my favourite (the best) region of cinema..
(directors Ive seen at least 3 films from)

Miyazaki: 4.53 [12 films]
Hirokazu Kore-eda: 4.10 [10]
Bong Joon-ho: 4.66 [3]
Edward Yang: 4.66 [3]
Kurosawa: 4.33 [6]                                                                         
Satoshi Kon: 4.37 [4]
Takahata: 4.30 [4]
Masaki Kobayashi: 4.25 [4]
Park Chan-wook: 3.33 [3]

(pretty much everything right of India excluding Russia)

25 of these are in top 50🥰

1. Yi Yi
2. Memories of Murder
3. An Elephant Sitting Still
4. Spirited Away
5. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
6. Whisper of the Heart
7. A Brighter Summer Day
8. Still Walking
9. Maborosi
10. Harakiri

...plus 93 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Have done a few of these already but no harm in again 🌬️💫

Please do give me recs!!

1. Kung Fu Hustle
2. Starship Troopers
3. Excalibur
4. Darkman
5. Army of Darkness
6. Waking Life
7. The God of Cookery
8. Dude, Where's My Car?
9. The Super Inframan
10. Blazing Saddles

...plus 69 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Average rating:

1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Darjeeling Limited
4. The French Dispatch
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
6. The Swan
7. Isle of Dogs
8. Rushmore
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel
10. Castello Cavalcanti

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

[Top 100]
feel free to drop recommendations based on this list 

32/50 foreign cinema:)

1. Yi Yi
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Memories of Murder
4. An Elephant Sitting Still
5. Spirited Away
6. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
7. Whisper of the Heart
8. A Brighter Summer Day
9. Still Walking
10. Taste of Cherry

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

love love love!!!

1. Yi Yi
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Memories of Murder
4. An Elephant Sitting Still
5. Spirited Away
6. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
7. Whisper of the Heart
8. A Brighter Summer Day
9. Still Walking
10. Taste of Cherry

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dune: Part Three
2. Marty Supreme
3. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
4. The Phoenician Scheme
5. The Odyssey
6. The Way of the Wind
7. Father Mother Sister Brother
8. The Mastermind
9. Orbital Era
10. Frankenstein

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Studio Ghibli >

Average rating: 3.6

1. Ratatouille

   Yes please

2. Soul
3. WALL·E
4. Toy Story 2
5. Toy Story
6. The Incredibles
7. Toy Story 3
8. Finding Nemo
9. Luca
10. Turning Red

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

Films I’ve seen via MUBI

1. An Elephant Sitting Still
2. Tokyo Sonata
3. Like Someone in Love
4. All About My Mother
5. The Worst Person in the World
6. Waltz with Bashir
7. The King of Comedy
8. My Life as a Zucchini
9. Like Father, Like Son
10. Old Joy

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films I’ve seen via BFI player

1. Yi Yi
2. A Brighter Summer Day
3. Still Walking
4. Maborosi
5. High and Low
6. Seven Samurai
7. Stalker
8. La Haine
9. Ran
10. Cléo from 5 to 7

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Directors with the most 5 stars
Hayao Miyazaki: 3
Edward Yang: 2
Kore-eda: 2
Bong Joon-ho: 2
Kurasawa: 2
Peter Jackson: 2
{Then arranged by colour:3 }

Foreign films: 18/31

1. Spirited Away
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Yi Yi
5. A Brighter Summer Day
6. Still Walking
7. Maborosi
8. Memories of Murder
9. Parasite
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Everything below Red Turtle is all in process of rewatching 

Average rating: 
Miyazaki alone: 4.41

1. Spirited Away
2. Whisper of the Heart
3. The Boy and the Heron
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
6. Princess Mononoke
7. Howl's Moving Castle
8. Kiki's Delivery Service
9. The Wind Rises
10. Only Yesterday

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Forgive me Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party 😔🙏
Only 7/10 +
First is my own lol-> https://youtube.com/@fabijan

1. Ethereal Reminiscence of Modern Life
2. It's Such a Beautiful Day
3. A Charlie Brown Christmas
4. On Your Mark
5. The Blank Page
6. Paperman
7. La Jetée
8. The Girl from the Other Side
9. Meshes of the Afternoon
10. Brain Wave

...plus 104 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

this films are just,,, wow

1. Ida
2. Yi Yi
3. Ran
4. Maborosi
5. La Haine
6. Memories of Murder
7. A Brighter Summer Day
8. An Elephant Sitting Still
9. The Tree of Life
10. Burning

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

{only films I’ve seen}
<some of these are custom posters fyi>

1. Cure
2. Taste of Cherry
3. Ran
4. Sans Soleil
5. A Brighter Summer Day
6. Yi Yi
7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
8. The Boy and the Heron
9. World of Tomorrow
10. Days of Heaven

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

{in notes}:)

1. Good Time

   End Credit scene: The Pure and the Damned

2. Akira

   Opening bike chase

3. Pom Poko

   Created illusion of memory

4. Spirited Away

   Train.

5. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

   Asuka fight…

6. An Elephant Sitting Still

   ‘Screaming into nothing’ - at junkyard 
   
   

7. A Page of Madness

   The fight

8. Interstellar

   No time for caution 

9. Arrival

   Ending - from phone call~>

10. The Boy and the Heron

    Delivery room..

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Average rating: 4.1

1. Still Walking
2. Maborosi
3. Monster
4. Shoplifters
5. After the Storm
6. Like Father, Like Son
7. Nobody Knows
8. Broker
9. After Life
10. Our Little Sister

Wether that be filmmaking (Top 15) or personally wise (rest)(excluding Darjeeling it’s basically just my most nostalgic films which I watched constantly as a wee lad)

1. An Elephant Sitting Still
2. Yi Yi
3. Taste of Cherry
4. Old Joy
5. Maborosi
6. The Tree of Life
7. Only Yesterday
8. Like Someone in Love
9. Still Walking
10. At Eternity's Gate

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